DOI: 10.5507/ff.23.24463476.01

INTRODUCTION: THE INTERPLAY OF ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL CHANGES IN ASIA

Filip Kraus (A.), Kateřina Šamajová (A.), Renata Westlake (A.), Blanka Ferklová (A.)

The introduction demonstrates how the recent economic transformations of Asia led to political, social, and cultural changes that are, at least discursively, counterbalanced by a certain traditionalism and continuity in patterns of sociocultural behavior. The introduction consequently introduces the structure of the book, which is divided into five thematic parts to indicate how the interplay of continuity and change in Asia produces and reproduces itself. As a result, the book begins with an excursion into various historically relevant studies on this phenomenon. The final part is organized according to different fields of study to demonstrate how economic and technological development triggers socio-political changes and transformations in contemporary art production. 

pages: 17-32