Southeast Asia : Tradition And Modernity In The Contemporary World, Second Edition

Donald McCloud彌合了東南亞歷史和當代形勢之間的差距，重點關注該地區內部動態的連續性以及與更大的全球環境關係。作者質疑廣泛持有的觀點，即多樣性和分散化是該地區的標誌，相反，確定了至少兩千年來一直限制東南亞國家的共同點，並為獨特的區域動態提供了基礎。它只是自第二次世界大戰以來，長期受全球環境影響的東南亞人已經定義並發展了自己的機構，社會結構和社區。擺脫不充分和不適應的西方制度，他們已經開始創造更符合自身歷史經驗的結構。特別是在政治領域，許多這些新結構似乎是直截了當的軍事獨裁統治。然而，時間已經證明它們更複雜，並且已經形成了許多獨特的組織實踐，可能預示著更加開放的政治體系 - 如果不是民主國家的嚴格西方定義。隨著東盟區域合作的擴大和強勁的經濟增長，東南亞的信心亞洲國家也有所增長。人們越來越多地提到生活的“亞洲方式”，這種語言表達了對新傳統價值觀和行為的激增，這些價值觀和行為一直是亞洲生活結構的一部分，但在過去卻被稱為“非西方”。東南亞的演變，首次聚焦於該地區當代獨立發展的新傳統基礎。

Bridging the perceived gap between Southeast Asia's historical and contemporary situations, Donald McCloud focuses on continuities in the region's internal dynamics as well as its relationship to the greater global environment. The author challenges widely held views that diversity and fragmentation are the hallmarks of the region, identifying instead the commonalities that have bound the countries of Southeast Asia together through at least two millennia and have provided the basis for a unique regional dynamic.It has only been since World War II that Southeast Asians, long influenced by the global environment, have defined and developed their own institutions, social structures, and communities. Turning away from inadequate and unadaptable Western institutions, they have begun to create structures more in tune with their own historical experiences. Particularly in the political sphere, many of these new structures seemed to be straightforward military dictatorships. However, time has shown them to be more complex, and many unique organizational practices have developed that may presage more open political systems—if not democracies by strict Western definitions.With the expansion of regional cooperation through ASEAN and strong economic growth, confidence among Southeast Asian states has grown as well. The growing references to an “Asian way” of life have given verbal expression to a surge in neotraditional values and behavior that have always been part of the fabric of Asian life but that in the past were frowned upon as “nonwestern.” This text traces the evolution of Southeast Asia and focuses for the first time on the neotraditional bases for contemporary, independent development of the region.

  Donald G Mccloud (Autor)

Publisher:Westview Press 

ISBN:    978-0813318967 

原價   US 32 台幣價 NT$1150