Proceedings of the XV East Asia Net Research Workshop
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, May 14-15, 2015
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abstract
Papers contained in this volume were prepared for the XV East Asia Net (EAN) Research Workshop, held at University Ca’ Foscari of Venice in Spring 2015. The workshop addressed two themes: the nature-culture-society nexus and cultural diplomacy. Works featured in this book draw from a variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches, representative of the the current trends in multidisciplinary research in the field of Asian Studies.
China • Renewable energies • Modernity • PRC • Environmental anthropology • Japanese fishing communities • Folk religion • Science • Web-based charm offensive • Seawater • Confucius Institutes • Seascape • Japan • Vietnam • Hanban • Hanoi • Feed-in-Tariff • Small and micro-scale hydropower • Cultural policy • Development cooperation • Technology • Water management and regulation • Globalization • Landscape phenomenology • Cultural diplomacy • Soft power • Chinese ecological discourse, ecological Marxism, • Postcolonial • Spectacular society