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2. What is the Concept of Globalization Good for? An African Historian's Perspective
3. Gender, Race, and Semicolonialism: Liu Na'ou's Urban Shanghai Landscape
4. The local and the global in the political economy of beauty: From Miss Belize to Miss World
5. The analysis of globalisation that our collaboration proposes is only possible by combining the regional and linguistic expertise of a coordinated group of scholars. No one person could handle the multiple languages and specific historical contexts that such research demands. To pay more than lip service to the diversity of contexts and cultures at play, studies of globalisation, like ours, must involve regional and disciplinary specialists who agree to bring their knowledge to bear on a single problem or a shared set of questions. Members of our group work in Chinese, German, English, French, Hindi and Swahili.