Deprived of state support and squeezed between domestic and multinational giants, few Chinese private enterprises can compete internationally… While it is no match for China’s rate of growth at the macrolevel, India has managed to produce many more private enterprises that are competitive in the international market.
As an analysis of the activities of fan clubs and SM’s interactions with them reveals, Adorno and Horkheimer’s negative portrayals of modern popular culture and the entertainment industry might be wholly unwarranted. In effect, weaknesses inherent in Adorno and Horkeimer’s scathing critiques of the culture industry and in the culture industry itself, as represented by SM, collectively call for a more optimistic view of popular cultural products and their effects on modern society.
The ideologies at work in this period can be further understood by studying two dominant forms of music that were produced at the time: protest folk and enka. In these two genres are reflected the conflicting visions of “Japan” that were formulated by the younger and older generations respectively, visions which both drew upon Japanese folk symbols to formulate a way forward for the postwar society, but which saw these symbols in very different ways.
Abstract: Though the Japanese language has the syntactic ability to express ownership in a noun phrase by utilizing the possessive particle, at a sociolinguistic level, expressing first-person possession includes a high risk of linguistically demonstrating a lack of humility on the part of the speaker. By the direct importation of the English-language possessive phrase “my [...]
Only by avoiding generalisations about ‘Africa’ and ‘China’ and conducting careful, critical, analytical and reflective micro-perspective field researches in each country, can we capture the history and intricate contemporary complexity dynamics of facts on the ground regarding how Chinese investments and Chinese migrants interact with and can coexist with Africans.
New York City is the skyline of my past, and Hong Kong is the skyline of the present. But I live in Shanghai, which is the skyline of the very near future. It’s tell-tale that the company I own is in Hong Kong, but I live and work in Shanghai. Shanghai is where the money is now, but for me Hong Kong has all the soul.
This survey was commissioned by the National Image and Public Diplomacy Research Team at the Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and carried out by the Center for Survey Research, Indiana University during June and July 2010. 810 valid responses were collected.
As birthrates decrease and people live longer, the natural forces of aging will beat against public finances, political processes and educational institutions like waves on the shore. Communities will change on the most fundamental level: even family practices and cultural values are likely to bow to demographic pressures. Nowhere will these forces appear sooner and with greater foreshadowing than in Japan.
Though the emerging superpower contender was relatively late to embrace the Internet phenomenon, a tremendous amount of web development has occurred in recent years. Despite the potential benefit of the Internet to its billion-plus denizens, the Chinese Communist Party has created one of the world’s foremost web sentry systems – the Golden Shield Project.
[Ending US arm sales to Taiwan] sacrifices none of the major U.S. goals in the Taiwan Strait and eliminates all the unpleasant consequences. The U.S. would avoid escalating the arms race with China and at the same time protect itself from Taiwanese entrapment and shirking.