English | 2020 | ISBN: 0295747102| 261 pages | True (PDF EPUB) | 38.44 MB
Lovely West Lake, near scenic Hangzhou on China's east coast, has been celebrated as a major tourist site since the twelfth century. Now as then, visitors boat to its islands, stroll through its gardens, worship in its temples, and immortalize it in poetry and painting. Hangzhou and West Lake have long served as icons of Chinese landscape appreciation, literary and artistic expression, and tourism.
In the first in-depth English-language study of this picturesque locale, Xiaolin Duan examines the interplay between human enterprise and the natural environment during the Song dynasty (960-1279). After the Song lost north China to the Jurchens and the imperial court fled south, a new capital was established at Hangzhou, making the area the national political and cultural center. West Lake became a model for idealized nature, fashioned by the diverse activities of its visitors. Duan shows how engagements in, on, and around West Lake influenced visitors' conceptualization of nature and sparked the emergence of the lake as a tourist destination, highlighting how the natural landscape played a role in shaping social and cultural constructs.

Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility By Reina Gossett; Eric A. Stanley; Johanna Burton (eds.)
2017 | 233 Pages | ISBN: 0262036606 | PDF | 15 MB
Essays, conversations, and archival investigations explore the paradoxes, limitations, and social ramifications of trans representation within contemporary culture.The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal society, but it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence against trans people (especially trans women of color) and by the suppression of trans rights under civil law. Trap Door grapples with these contradictions. The essays, conversations, and dossiers gathered here delve into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality. Collectively, they attest to how trans people are frequently offered "doors"-entrances to visibility and recognition-that are actually "traps," accommodating trans bodies and communities only insofar as they cooperate with dominant norms. The volume speculates about a third term, perhaps uniquely suited for our time: the trapdoor, neither entrance nor exit, but a secret passageway leading elsewhere. Trap Door begins a conversation that extends through and beyond trans culture, showing how these issues have relevance for anyone invested in the ethics of visual culture. Contributors Lexi Adsit, Sara Ahmed, Nicole Archer, Kai Lumumba Barrow, Johanna Burton, micha cárdenas, Mel Y. Chen, Grace Dunham, Treva Ellison, Sydney Freeland, Che Gossett, Reina Gossett, Stamatina Gregory, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Robert Hamblin, Eva Hayward, Juliana Huxtable, Yve Laris Cohen, Abram J. Lewis, Heather Love, Park McArthur, CeCe McDonald, Toshio Meronek, Fred Moten, Tavia Nyong'o, Morgan M. Page, Roy Pérez, Dean Spade, Eric A. Stanley, Jeannine Tang, Wu Tsang, Jeanne Vaccaro, Chris E. Vargas, Geo Wyeth, Kalaniopua Young, Constantina ZavitsanosTrap Door is necessary for now, a collection of essays unafraid of the messy contradictions of capitalism and its deleterious effects on bodies, movement, and land. This collection anchors us in 'the paradox of this moment,' increased transgender visibility alongside proliferating violence and rejection of transgender people personally, socially, and politically. Transdisciplinary and trans-historical, this text not only allows us to think race, gender, sexuality, and the state, simultaneously; it also contends with the material, ideological, and epistemological ramifications of visibility. The book is not simply about knowing or seeing, or even feeling; it makes its readers conscious of how it is we have come to know, see, and feel. This collection is a model text, a must read that demonstrates the highest potential of Transgender Studies as a field.Kai M. Green Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Williams College

Cultural Intelligence in the World of Work - Past, Present, Future []
epub | 1.33 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B084BS91T1 | Author: Yuan Liao, David C. Thomas | Year: 2020

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Brooks Peterson, "Cultural Intelligence: A Guide to Working with People from Other Cultures"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 1931930007 | 240 pages | PDF | 4.9 MB
(Second Edition - 2018) Sharpen your own cultural intelligence - and increase your professional effectiveness at the same time. Whether traveling abroad or working at home, professionals routinely face challenges when it comes to understanding the culture of others. When misunderstandings occur, relationships suffer. The good news is that cultivating cultural intelligence is a skill that can be learned, and Brooks Peterson tells you how. Packed with dozens of engaging stories, cases, and humorous contemporary cartoons by the author, Cultural Intelligence: A Guide to Working with People from Other Cultures (Second Edition - 2018) is the perfect antidote for overcoming cross-cultural differences, improving workplace communication, guiding solid business relationships, and contributing positively to your organization's bottom line. In this in-depth companion to the Peterson Cultural Style Indicator™, Dr. Peterson defines cultural intelligence and uses a clear and rational approach to explore the skills and characteristics required to work effectively with international clients, customers, and business partners - or inside any team, department, or organization with a rich mix of cultural perspectives. Using a set of 25 professional- and business-oriented dimensions, the author helps you examine your own cultural style and determine that of others in six vital areas of style: management, strategy, planning, personnel, reasoning, and communication. The crowning piece is a suite of key action steps for increasing your own cultural intelligence. Building on the success of the bestselling original edition of Cultural Intelligence (Intercultural Press, 2004) this updated 2018 edition offers about 25% more material, including reflection questions at the end of each chapter, updates for today's digital world, and many improvements based on valuable feedback from professors and past readers.

Museum and Archive on the Move - Changing Cultural Institutions in the Digital Era
pdf | 12.39 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B06Y6BLXFV | Author: Oliver Grau | Year: 2017

Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft - Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century
pdf | 23.44 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 036755769X | Author: Edited by Marina Montesano | Year: 2021

Research Handbook on Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage: Law and Heritage By Charlotte Waelde (Editor), Catherine Cummings (Editor), Mathilde Pavis (Editor), Helena Enright (Editor)
2018 | 448 Pages | ISBN: 1786434008 | PDF | 9 MB
Bringing together key insights from expert legal and heritage academics and practitioners, this book explores the existence and safeguarding of contemporary forms of intangible cultural heritage (ICH). Providing a detailed analysis of the international legal frameworks relevant to ICH, the contributing authors then go on to challenge the pervasive view that heritage is about 'old' tangible objects by highlighting the existence, role and importance of contemporary forms of ICH to modern society.

Roger T. Ames, "Confucianisms for a Changing World Cultural Order "
English | ISBN: 0824872584 | 2017 | 284 pages | PDF | 12 MB
In a single generation, the rise of Asia has precipitated a dramatic sea change in the world's economic and political orders. This reconfiguration is taking place amidst a host of deepening global predicaments, including climate change, migration, increasing inequalities of wealth and opportunity, that cannot be resolved by purely technical means or by seeking recourse in a liberalism that has of late proven to be less than effective. The present work critically explores how the pan-Asian phenomenon of Confucianism offers alternative values and depths of ethical commitment that cross national and cultural boundaries to provide a new response to these challenges.

Asian Religions - A Cultural Perspective
pdf | 9.3 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B00HVYFYW2 | Author: Nadeau, Randall L.; | Year: 2014