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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book delves into the widely held belief that the 21st century will be the "Asian Century" by examining the Asia's rapid economic development in the post-war era and the challenges it faces in forging ahead of world leaders in the West. The impact of the current turbulent global political climate on Asia is critically analyzed, employing a holistic and multidisciplinary approach, combining economic, social, political and geopolitical perspectives. Written in an accessible style, the book offers students, business, government, and civil society players powerful insights on Asia.
Political science. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- Asian Politics. --- Asian Economics. --- Asia --- Politics and government. --- Economic conditions. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Asia-Politics and government. --- Asia-Economic conditions. --- Asia—Politics and government. --- Asia—Economic conditions. --- Asian Century --- Asia's middle class --- Urbanisation in Asia --- Asian demographic challenges --- Democracy and politics in Asia --- Asia's global value chains --- Economic crime in Asia --- Power transition in Asia --- China and US rivalry --- Inclusive growth in Asia
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'Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia' centralizes fashion and beauty in the shaping of Asian modernities and the formation of the so-called Asian Century. The authors assembled here train our eyes on sites as far-flung and varied and yet as intimate and intimately connected as Guangzhou and Los Angeles, Saigon and Seoul, New York and Toronto, in order to map the transnational and transregional connections that have made new worlds and life paths possible.
Asian Century. --- Asian labor. --- Asian workers. --- China. --- Ho Chi Minh City. --- Jezebel. --- Korea. --- Korean pop culture. --- Metropolitan Museum of Art. --- Nepal. --- Orientalism. --- Philippines. --- Toronto. --- Vietnam. --- Womenlink. --- body labor. --- consumer. --- consumers. --- cosmetics. --- creativity. --- custom fit. --- deprofessionalized. --- development. --- diaspora. --- displacement. --- ethnography. --- fast fashion. --- fast-fashion families. --- femininity. --- feminism. --- global North. --- global South. --- global capitalism. --- global commodity chains. --- global feminism. --- globalization. --- little freedoms. --- migration. --- modernity. --- nail salon. --- nail salons. --- neoliberalism. --- plastic surgery. --- research encounters. --- skin literacy. --- skin. --- social capital. --- social media. --- suitability. --- transnational body labor. --- transnational feminism. --- transnational. --- transregional.
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