Understanding Authenticity in Chinese Cultural Heritage explores the construction of "authenticity" and its consequences in relation to Chinese cultural heritage – those objects, texts, and intangible practices concerned with China’s past.

Toyin Falola explains the conquest, administration, and the transformational changes in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century in Nigeria. Its depth of analysis makes it a resourceful book for undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars.

Brazil is a place where narratives of "racial democracy" exist in the face of stark inequalities, where politics swinsg dramatically right to left, and where the natural environment is celebrated and exploited at alarming rates. The book is ideal for students and researchers, as well as any readers looking to learn more about Brazil.

This book offers a close analysis of the relationship between diets and identity in modern Western culture through examination of popular texts including blogs, diet books, and websites.

This book sheds light on the aspects of the Korean Wave and Korean media products less discussed — Korean literature, webtoon, and mukbang. It explores the making of these Korean popular cultural products and how they work and engage media recipients regardless of their different national, cultural, and geographical backgrounds.

This book contains sixteen studies of a selection of Berlin's greatest essays that highlight the enduring importance of his vision of humanity. It brings together notable commentators from a variety of intellectual backgrounds to explore what makes Berlin's humanism so distinctive and absorbing.

This volume explores the evolving landscape of nationalism in South Asia through the lens of literature and performance, examining how narratives challenge, contest, and reimagine the nation-state. Spanning the spectrum from subnationalism to postnationalism, it offers geographical and conceptual coverage through diverse scholarly views.