Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Plates -- 1 Introduction: Crossroad Civilisations and Bricolage Identities -- 2 Asia and the Global World: Identities, Values, Rights -- 3 Creating 'Malaysians': A Case Study of an Urban kampung in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia -- 4 Ethnic Mosaic and the Cultural Nationalism of Bhutan -- 5 Religion and Cultural Nationalism: Socio-Political Dynamism of Communal Violence in India -- 6 Is Identity Clash Inevitable? Identity and Network Building amongst Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong -- 7 Socio-Economic Crisis and Its Consequences on a Little Known Tribal Community in West Bengal, India -- 8 Post-Colonialism, Globalism, Nativism: Reinventing English in a Post-Colonial Space -- 9 Occidentalism and Asian Middle-Class Identities: Notes on Birthday Cakes in an Indian Context -- 10 Ode to 'Personal Challenge': Reconsidering Japanese Groupism and the Role of Beethoven's Ninth in Catering to Socio-Cultural Needs -- 11 Performing Cosmopolitan Clash and Collage: Krishen Jit's Stagings of the 'Stranger' in Malaysia -- 12 Constructing Identity: Visual Expressions of Islam in the Predominantly Catholic Philippines -- 13 Islam and Orientalism in New Zealand: The Challenges of Multiculturalism, Human Rights and National Security - and the Return of the Xenophobes -- Contributors -- References.