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ASIA AND CHINA IN THE GLOBAL ERA GEBUNDEN

China's strong economic growth occurring alongside modernization across the great majority of
Asian societies has created what many see as a transnational space through and by which not
only economic  social and cultural resources  but also threats and crises flow over traditional
political boundaries. The first section of the work lays out a clear conceptual framework. It
draws on arguments about nation no longer being the only container of society  about
trans-disciplinary thinking  and about knowledge being context-bound. It identifies and
discusses distinctive features of China and Asia in the global era. These include population 
urbanization and climate change  the continuing reach of Orientalist shadows  cultural politics
of knowledge. It closes by arguing how global studies adds value to existing accounts. The
second  and longer  section applies this framework through a series of original empirical
case-studies in three areas: migration poverty gender  culture education  well-being. Both the
conceptual framework and case-studies are drawn from research presented at HKBU since 2011
under the auspices of the Global Social Sciences Conference Series and supplemented by
additional papers.

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