Author: Chuen-Fung Wong / Publishing Institution: Macalester College

Author:: Chuen-Fung Wong
Publication Date:: 05-2009
Content Type:: Journal Article
Journal:: Macalester International
Institution:: Macalester College
Abstract:: This article began as a reflective essay for the Faculty Development International Seminar of Macalester College, Minnesota, entitled, The Israeli-Palestinian Impasse: Dialogic Transformations, in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The seminar involved a semester-long preparation of lectures, colloquia, and readings in St. Paul, Minnesota, leading to a three-week on-site seminar and research in the West Bank cities of Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Bethlehem, in May and June 2008.
Political Geography:: Israel, Palestine, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem

Author:: Chuen-Fung Wong
Publication Date:: 08-2008
Content Type:: Journal Article
Journal:: Macalester International
Institution:: Macalester College
Abstract:: Over the last decade or so, “globalization” has swiftly become one of the favorite buzzwords in various fields of Chinese studies, music being one of the last to embrace such interdisciplinarity. This is particularly salient among writings by the indigenous scholars who often join their “research subjects” in imagining a globalizing China in which music should not be ignored in the process. Optimistic critics deploy languages of modernist reformism and argue for a better and faster integration of Chinese music into the imagined global music family in which a seat is due to be secured. Pessimists, on the other hand, are never indolent in reminding their colleagues of the danger of cultural dilution and other unwelcome consequences in the seemingly irreversible wave of globalization.
Political Geography:: China

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