This collection of essays examines urban communities and societies in Asia and the West to shed much-needed light on issues that have emerged as the world exper

This book is a collection of papers originally presented at a conference of the same name in the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden in 2016.

1. The combination of philosophy with architectural and urban studies . 2. The comparative stance which contrast the philosophies of East and West, and/or ancie

In recent decades, East Asia has become increasingly interconnected through trade, investment, migration, and popular culture at regional and global levels. At

Ethnographic and theoretical accounts of the transnational practices of Chinese elites, showing how they constitute a dispersed Chinese public, but also how the