The contributors to this volume theorize Asian video cultures in the context of social movements, market economies, and local popular cultures to complicate notions of the Asian experience of global media. Whether discussing video platforms in Japan and Indonesia, K-pop reception videos, amateur music videos circulated via microSD cards in India, or the censorship of Bollywood ...(展开全部)

Andre Gunder Frank asks us to re-orient our views away from Eurocentrism - to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on its head the world according to Marx, Weber, and other theorists, including Polanyi, Rostow, Braudel, and Wallerstein. Frank ...(展开全部)

How do cities use culture today? Building on the experience of New York as a "culture capital" Sharon Zukin shows how three notions of culture - as ethnicity, aesthetic, and marketing tool - are reshaping urban places and conflicts over revitalization. She rejects the idea that cities have either a singular urban culture or many different subcultures to argue that cultures are ...(展开全部)

Over a mere three decades, the video game has become the entertainment medium of choice for millions of people, who now spend more time in the interactive virtual world of games than they do in watching movies or even television. The release of new games or game-playing equipment, such as the PlayStation 2, generates great excitement and even buying frenzies. Yet, until now, th...(展开全部)

With globalization steadily reshaping the cultural landscape, scholars have long called for a full-scale reassessment of art history's largely Eurocentric framework. This collection of case studies and essays, the latest in the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, brings together voices from various disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds, each proposing ways to remap, dec...(展开全部)

The workings of Western intelligence in our day—whether in politics or the arts, in the humanities or the church—are as troubling as they are mysterious, leading to the questions: Where are we going? What in the world were we thinking? By exploring the history of four “cultures” so deeply embedded in Western history that we rarely see their instrumental role in politics, religi...(展开全部)

John W. O'malley是韦斯顿耶稣会士人文学院杰出的文化史教授

贡德‧弗兰克（Andre Gunder Frank，1929—2005），生于柏林，当代西方知名学者。1957年毕业于美国芝加哥大学，获得经济学博士学位。1978年获巴黎第八大学政治经济学国家博士学位。曾在欧洲、北美和拉丁美洲多所大学执教。弗兰克一直致力于世界体系史、当代国际政治、经济和社会运动的研究，为依附理论代表人物之一，也是全球史研究的开拓者之一。 弗兰克思想敏锐，著作颇丰，一生著书40多部，文章1000多篇。主要作品有：《世界体系：500年还是5000年？》（The World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?,与巴里·K.吉尔斯合著）、《白银资本：重视经济全球化中的东方》（ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age）、遗作《19世纪大转型》（Re...(展开全部)

Andre Gunder Frank was a path-breaking scholar in several disciplines over an illustrious and contentious 50-year career. Premier among his many important works is the book, ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age, which sought to correct a Eurocentric worldview of the development of the global political economy. As Gunder Frank continued his research, he realized that many o...(展开全部)

"Warriors of the Cloisters" tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. Medieval scholars rarely performed scientific experiments, but instead contested issues in natural science, philosophy, and theology using the recursive argument method. This highly distinctive and unusual method of...(展开全部)