Abstract
Picture these scenes. Clusters of Japanese high school students, variously clad in uniform school blazers or Raiders starter jackets, disembark from a fleet of air-conditioned buses and roam the Beijing Friendship Store shopping for souvenirs of their summer tour in China. A Tibetan cab driver in Chinese-controlled Lhasa tells a tourist he presumes to be Western that he prefers and identifies with Indian popular music and cinema and not with the Hong Kong and Taiwanese music and films that are far more popular in contemporary socialist China. And in Washington, D.C., a professional woman from the Solomon Islands, flown in by the Rural Advancement Foundation International headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, speaks critically and eloquently (and in English) at a key public session on "the Human Genome Diversity Project," sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | From Beijing to Port Moresby |
Subtitle of host publication | The Politics of National Identity in Cultural Policies |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Pages | 1-31 |
Number of pages | 31 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781134388660 |
ISBN (Print) | 9057005026, 9781138974715 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences