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This important new text examines the crucial social and cultural factors associated with the rise of the Asia- Pacific region at the end of the Twentieth Century.It takes a close look at those areas which have affected the everyday life of the people most directly. These include:• the family• gender relations and the position of women• religion• the arts, with specific reference to film• ethnic relations and population migration• education, and the images of the Asia-Pacific.The authors discuss real tensions between tradition and modernity in different nations of the Asia-Pacific, exploring the effects that economic growth has on powerful traditional cultures.
- Author
- Editor-colin Mackerras
- Publisher
- Routledge in association with the Open University
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780415172783
- Subjects
- Science, History, Social_sciences
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