Modalities of Change: The Interface of Tradition and Modernity in East Asia

 
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Examines the interface between modernity and tradition in selected societies in Taiwan, mainland China and Vietnam Explores how modernity may place "traditional" forms of expression at a disadvantage and how modernity is embraced into "tradition" to change it Questions to what extent traditions are themselves exploiting modernity in creative ways

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Robert Parkin is a Departmental Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He has also taught at the University of Kent at Canterbury, Oxford Brookes University and the Free University of Berlin. His main thematic interests are in kinship, religion and symbolism, ethnicity, nationalism and regional identity and the history of French anthropology, on all of which he has published extensively.

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