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Creative Spaces : Seeking the Dynamics of Change in China, Paperback / softback Book

Creative Spaces : Seeking the Dynamics of Change in China Paperback / softback

Edited by Denise Gimpel, Bent Nielsen, Paul Bailey

Part of the NIAS Studies in Asian Topics series

Paperback / softback

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China is in flux but as argued by the contributors to this volume change is neither new to China nor is it unique to that country; similar patterns are found in other times and in other places.

Indeed, on the basis of concrete case studies (ranging from Confucius to the Vagina Monologues, from Protestant missionaries to the Chinese avant-garde) and drawing on theoretical insights from different disciplines, the contributors assert that change may be planned but the outcome can never be predicted with any confidence.

Rather, there exist creative spaces within which people, ideas and systems interact with uncertain outcomes. As such, by identifying a more sophisticated approach to the complex issues of change, cultural encounters and so-called globalization, this volume not only offers new insights to scholars of other geo-cultural regions; it also throws light on the workings of our 'global' and 'transnational' lives today, in the past and in the future.

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