CULTURAL CORNERS AND ASIAN CONTEXTS

Abstract

Globalization in the way it has often been conceived, is onesided.
It is often thought of as the influence of the West upon the rest
of the world. But in the very early exchanges – the Silk Road – this
was a two-way relationship. How can we conceive of globalization,
not as domination, but as exchange between local cultures? In this
paper I propose to investigate idea of the “corners” as a new model
of globalization.