Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: THE CULTURAL DYNAMICS OF GLOBALIZATION -- Part One: Globalization and Alternative Modernities -- 1 Managed Globalization: STATE POWER AND CULTURAL TRANSITION IN CHINA -- 2 Coexistence and Synthesis: CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION AND LOCALIZATION IN CONTEMPORARY TAIWAN -- 3 Aspects of Globalization in Contemporary Japan -- 4 "A Tryst with Destiny": THE INDIAN CASE OF CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION -- Part Two: Globalization and Regional Subglobalization -- 5 Cultural Globalization in Germany -- 6 Rival Temptations and Passive Resistance: CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION IN HUNGARY -- Part Three: Globalization on the Periphery -- 7 Globalization, Culture,and Development: CAN SOUTH AFRICA BE MORE THAN AN OFFSHOOT OF THE WEST? -- 8 Trends toward Globalization in Chile -- 9 Cultural Globalization in Turkey: ACTORS, DISCOURES, STRATEGIES -- Part Four: The American Vortex -- 10 In the Vanguard of Globalization:THE WORLD OF AMERICAN GLOBALIZERS -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- y -- Z.