Globalization and transnationalism make us homogenized and heterogenized at the same time. This research looks into the social interactions of the French with other nationalities, and goes beyond the daily life in Shanghai to investigate the transnational connections with France. Based on interviews and participant observation for 12 months in 2006, this research finds that the majority of the French expatriates in Shanghai develop a cosmopolitan culture which incorporates the consumption of exotic cultural products of the Other---Asian antiques, furniture, Chinese materials which are not for decoration, reading French literature including that on the exotic Asia, learning Chinese and English language, speaking English, mobility, and French lifestyle. However, they are not cosmopolitan in terms of social network. / Globalization has witnessed the wide-spread adoption of English language and Anglo-American culture. Today the French, a previous world power, are still trying to promote the radiance of French haute culture. This research adds to the study of cultural imperialism and also contributes to the anthropological study of foreign communities in China, by linking cosmopolitanism, globalization, and transnationalism. / This research asks whether the French expatriates residing in Shanghai are cosmopolitan. Do the French retain the basic elements of their culture of origin within a mostly exclusive French community? Or, due to the nature of the globalized corporate world to which they belong, do they develop a community as part of an international cosmopolitan one with its own cultural norms and patterns of behavior? / Hou, Jing Rong. / Adviser: Joseph Bosco. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-04, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 319-333). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese.

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Tsang Mei Lan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-128). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / Abstract --- p.iv / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1. --- Research Problem --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- Anthropological Background of Festivals --- p.4 / On Rituals / On Cultural Identity / Chapter 3. --- Theoretical Framework --- p.8 / On Hong Kong / On Festivals / Chapter 4. --- Methodology --- p.14 / Participant Observation and Ethnographic Interviews Written Materials and News Collecting / Chapter 5. --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.17 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Historical Background --- p.19 / Chapter 1. --- From Ethnic Conflict to Cultural Borrowing -- Christmas in Hong Kong --- p.19 / Chapter 2. --- Changes of Tradition --Hong Kong's Lunar New Year --- p.30 / Chapter 3. --- Creation of Local Identity in Hong Kong --- p.39 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Making Up Christmas in Hong Kong --- p.42 / Chapter 1. --- Christmas in The Air --- p.43 / Chapter 2. --- Constructing Via Consuming --- p.47 / Christmas Commodities / Christmas Activities / Chapter 3. --- Different Interpretation of Christmas --- p.56 / Consumption for Christmas / Social Relations in Christmas / Chapter 4. --- Cultural Analysis --- p.73 / Westerness / Dialectics in Constructing Christmas / Christmas - An Everlasting Process of Construction / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Inheritance of Lunar New Year in Hong Kong --- p.79 / Chapter 1. --- Lunar New Year in Life --- p.79 / Chapter 2. --- Constructing Via Customs and Myths --- p.82 / Rituals before New Year's Day / Rituals on and after New Year's Day / Chapter 3. --- Unified Meanings of Lunar New Year --- p.85 / A Family Festival / An Experience of Community / A Carnival of Customs / Chapter 4. --- Reconstructing Lunar New Year --- p.95 / Lost Traditions / Creation of Traditions / Boundless Traditions / Chapter 5. --- Lunar New Year - A Cultural Memory --- p.103 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- A Comparison of the Festivals --- p.107 / Chapter 1. --- Unspecification of Festivities --- p.107 / Chapter 2. --- Meaning for Festivals --- p.109 / Chapter 3. --- Cultural Imagination --- p.111 / Christmas - A Foreign Festival / Lunar New Year - A Traditional Festival / Chapter 4. --- Festivals as Social Process --- p.117 / Chapter 5. --- Festivals as Pools for Constructing Identity --- p.118 / References --- p.122 / Books and Journals / Newspaper and Magazines

Thesis (DLitt (Church History))--Stellenbosch University, 1954. / Please refer to full text for abstract.

My dissertation examines the cultural history of the Renaissance Venetian maritime empire. In this project I bring into conversation two historiographical subfields, the intellectual history of Venetian Renaissance humanism and the colonial history of the early modern Mediterranean, which have previously developed separately. In doing so, I examine the relationship between power and knowledge as it unfolded in the early modern Mediterranean. The ways in which Venetian Renaissance intellectual culture was shaped by its imperial engagements - and, conversely, how Venetian approaches to governance were inflected by humanist practices - are the central axes of my dissertation. In the first part of the dissertation, I examine the ways in which writing and textual collecting were used by elite Venetian readers to represent the geopolitical dimensions of their empire. I consider a group of manuscripts and printed books which contain technical, navigational, and cartographic writing and images about Venetian mercantile and imperial activity in the Mediterranean. In the second part, I undertake two case-studies of Venetian patrician governors who were trained in the humanist schools of Venice, before being posted to colonial offices in Dalmatia and the Aegean, respectively. I examine how their education in Venice as humanists influenced their experience and practice of governance in the stato da mar. Their personal texts offer an alternative intellectual history of empire, one which demonstrates the formation of political thought amongst the men actually practicing and experiencing imperial governance. Overall, I aim to build a picture of the ways in which literary culture, the physical world of the stato da mar, and political thought came to be entwined in the Venetian Renaissance; and then to describe how these dense relationships worked for the Venetian administrators who experienced them in the Mediterranean.

Trajan conquered Dacia in 106 CE and encouraged one of the largest colonization efforts in the history of the Roman Empire. The new province was rich in natural resources. Immigrants from Dalmatia, Moesia, Noricum, Pannonia, Greece, Syria, Bithynia, Italy, indigenous Dacians, and soldiers from Legio XIII Gemina participated in the extraction of gold from the Apuseni Mountains. The inhabitants of mining settlements around Alburnus Maior and the administrative center Ampelum coexisted under Roman governance but continued to mark their identities in multicultural communities. At Alburnus Maior the presence of wage laborers with access to outside materials and ideas created the opportunity for miners to communicate identity through mediums that have survived. A series of wax tablet legal contracts, altars, and funerary monuments can be combined with recent archaeological data from settlements, burials, and the mines themselves to formulate the broad view necessary to examine the intricacies of group and self-expression. Through this evidence, Alburnus Maior offers a case study for how mobility and colonization in the ancient world could impact identity. Due to the pressures of coping within a multicultural community, miners formed settlements that were central to their daily lives and facilitated the embodiment of state, community, and personal identities. Identity changes over time and can simultaneously communicate several ideas that are hard to categorize. This study approaches this challenge by looking from macro to micro contexts that influenced several expressions of identity. Chapter 2 begins with a historical background that explores the expansion of the Roman Empire and considers how different experiences of conquest influenced the colonists who immigrated to Dacia. The circumstances that led to the massive colonization of Dacia are also considered. Chapter 3 describes how the mines at Alburnus Maior were exploited, who was present, and assesses the impact of state officials, legionaries, and elite entrepreneurs on the formation and expression of state identity through cult, law, and language. The formation of immigrant communities and the working conditions that permeated everyday life at the mines are then considered in the next chapter. Settlement, cult, and religious membership are evaluated for their role in creating and articulating community identities. Chapter 5 then analyzes the personal and sometimes private expression of identity that appears in commemoration, naming conventions, and burial. The three levels of state, community, and personal identities often overlap and collectively show that the hybridization of ideas from several cultures was central to how those at Alburnus Maior negotiated their identity in the Roman Empire.