Description:
- Examines the interface between modernity and tradition in selected societies in Taiwan, mainland China and Vietnam
- Explores how modernity may place "traditional" forms of expression at a disadvantage and how modernity is embraced into "tradition" to change it
- Questions to what extent traditions are themselves exploiting modernity in creative ways
Brief description:
James Wilkerson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He received his PhD degree in anthropology from the University of Virginia. He has conducted research on religion, kinship and social history in the Penghu Islands, Taiwan and in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China.