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Marking time in lockdown: heroization and ritualization in the UK during the coronavirus pandemic
Realism has predominated in discussions about the coronavirus pandemic where politicians, authorities, and commentators debate over the substance and...
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Cross-Currents of Social Theorizing of Contemporary Taiwan: An Introduction and an Invitation
Taiwan is just off the coast of Mainland China. In this book, we present some aspects of cross-currents of theorizing of self, culture and society in...
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A Comparative Study of Romeo and Juliet and The Butterfly Lovers
Love is not only an important topic in life but also an eternal theme in literature. In China, The Butterfly Lovers is regarded as one of the most...
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Young Adults’ Aspiration for Intimacy in Post-collectivist China
This chapter delves into the dynamics of marital choices in contemporary China. The chapter presents contrasting responses between men and women...
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Hakka Theatre: Roseki Taipei Singer
In Roseki (2018), played by Hakka TV, Director and Playwright Lou, Yi-An uses the form of stage performance “play-within-the-play.” Roseki represents...
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Emerging subdisciplines in ethnology and anthropology of Serbia: research trends at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
This article presents the in-depth analysis of the disciplinary landscape of ethnology and anthropology in Serbia within the institutional contexts...
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Intersections of Asian Identity, Languages, and Professional Education: Where the Personal and Professional Intimately Collide
Despite the continuing trend of diversifying ethnic, cultural, and linguistic identities of systemic therapy students and clinicians in the United...
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Aesthetic Norms and Motivations of Subaltern Video-Filmmaking: Comic Skits and Mobile Journalism of the Everyday in Zimbabwe
Comic outfits Magamba Network, Bustop TV and P.O Box have gained popularity for their creative forms of youth activism in which they produce and...
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Three Phases of Urban Redevelopment Governance
This chapter aims to describe what happened in the field of urban redevelopment in Guangzhou from 1990 to 2015. The patterns of governance in this...
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Pandemic Geopolitics and the Bordering of COVID-19: Academic and Lay Geographies of the Pandemic and Policies to Contain and Mitigate the Novel Coronavirus
Individual and collective strategies to cope with the pandemic are highly geopolitical, revealing the intricacies of the relations between power and...
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The Life and Legacy of Kobe Bryant: Reflections from Cal Poly Pomona
I was in the midst of teaching a “Politics, Policies, Pop Culture,” course at Cal Poly Pomona when I learned of Kobe Bryant’s tragic death. Every...
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Construct Knowledge—Graduate Education in Theories and Methods
Mass communication theories and research methods are two compulsory courses for graduate students in communication, which open up their theoretical...
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The Man Is the Message
Western communication theories, especially theories of media effects, are much at the mercy of the influence from development and advance in media...
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Disrupting Work and Leisure in Lockdown: the Case of the Soho Poly
This article takes as its point of departure the impact of Covid 19 on leisure and work and uses the London arts venue the Soho Poly as a lens...
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Special Effects of Communication: A Book that Changes a Life
In this age when books are being published every single moment, have you ever imagined that a literary book could change a young man’s life? Imagine...
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Political Victimage Ritual and Evil
This chapter extends previous research on the problematic calculated use by the US power elite of well-orchestrated campaigns of political victimage...
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A Feminist Reading of Chinese Actress Liu **aoqing’s Screen Roles and Life Story
Liu **aoqing, a name known in almost every Chinese household, symbolizes beauty and charm, female strength, avant-garde femininity, female...
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Introduction: Defining Theme Parks and Assessing Theme Park Studies
The introduction offers a thorough discussion of various definitions of theme parks, a detailed reflection on the development of theme park studies,...
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From One Wave to the Next: Aesthetics and Digital Intimacy
The wave of Japanese pop culture reached France in the 1990s, during the formative years of some of our respondents, undeniably fostered their taste...