Countdown to Tiananmen
Author | : Zhifeng Jiang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Zhifeng Jiang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Harrison Evans Salisbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 9780044406198 |
A firsthand account by American journalist, Harrison Salisbury, of the massacre of Chinese students by government troops in Tiananmen Square in June 1989.
Author | : Charlene Makley |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1501719653 |
Based on long-term fieldwork in a rural Tibetan region in China's northwest (2002-13), 'The Battle for Fortune' is an ethnography of state-local relations among Tibetans marginalized underChina's Great Develop the West campaign and during the 2008 military crackdown on Tibetan unrest. The study brings anthropological approaches to states and development into dialogue with recent interdisciplinary debates about the very nature of human subjectivity and relations with nonhuman others (including deities).
Author | : David James Clarke |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780822329206 |
Survey of contemporary Hong Kong art.
Author | : Suzanne Ogden |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1315489635 |
Within a framework of analysis and background by the four editors, this book presents a view from the grassroots of the 1989 student and mass movement in China and its tragic consequences. Here are the core eyewitness and participant accounts expressed through wall posters, students speeches, movement declarations, handbills, and other documents. In their introductions to the material, the editors address the political economy of the democracy movement, the evolving concept of democracy during the movement, the movement's contribution to China becoming a civil society, and the changing view of the Chinese Communist Party by students, intellectuals, workers and others, as the crisis unfolded.
Author | : Alexis McCrossen |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022601486X |
In Marking Modern Times, Alexis McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classes to acquire watches and clocks, and expands our understanding of the ways we have standardized time and have made timekeepers serve as political, social, and cultural tools in a society that not merely values time, but regards access to it as a natural-born right.
Author | : Hai Ren |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2010-10-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136923659 |
This book examines the period leading up to the Hong Kong handover in 1997 - the 'countdown of time', and by using iconic cultural symbols such as the countdown clock, the Hong Kong Museum exhibitions and cultural heritage sites, argues that China has undergone a transition to neoliberal state, in part through its reunification with Hong Kong. The problem of synchronization with the world, a Chinese phrase that epitomizes China's engagement with modern capitalism since the first Opium War, was characterized throughout the 20th century as a 'humiliation', 'weakness', 'tragedy' and 'disaster', with China in the role of the victim of capitalist globalization. During the reunification with Hong Kong, these conventional expressions were replaced by new ones such as 'de-humiliation', 'return', 'self-esteem' and 'revival'. Hai Ren gives an ethnographic and historical analysis of this cultural and political transformation of China's globalization experience by looking closely at public history practices in mainland China and Hong Kong and how the reconfiguration of everyday life and cultural norms led to the development of this neoliberal China. As a book which straddles Chinese and Hong Kong, history, politics, cultural heritage and museum studies more generally, it can be regarded as a work of cultural political economy which will appeal to students and scholars of all of the above.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1997-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
Author | : Cathy Gutierrez |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2014-12-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317488806 |
Millennial movements have had a significant impact on history and lie behind many artistic and scientific views of the world. 'The End that Does' tracks the interplay of the arts, sciences, and millennial imagination across 3000 years. The volume presents essays ranging across the study of ancient ritualistic sacrifice, utopian technology and the American millennial dream, science fiction, and the apocalypse of the tabloids. The End that Does will be invaluable to any student or scholar interested in the history of millennialism.
Author | : Linda Jaivin |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2014-05-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1780233000 |
Reaktion’s new CityScopes series consists of concise, illustrated guides that provide a social and urban history from a city’s beginnings to the present day. Written by authors with unique and intimate knowledge of each city, these books offer fascinating vignettes on the quintessential and the quirky. In the first book of the series, Linda Jaivin explores a city at the heart of one of the world’s oldest civilizations and the capital of its newest superpower—Beijing. In China’s central city, Jaivin finds thousands of years of history dating back to our ancestors, a story that includes dynastic empires, sieges, massacres, rebellions, and political spectacle. Recounting the lively history of the city, Jaivin discovers the Peking Man and the capital’s many legendary incarnations, such as the Cambaluc that Marco Polo wrote about in awe. She reveals it to be full of charismatic personalities and dramatic events, a place that has produced some of China’s most iconic works of literature, theater, and music. She also offers thought-provoking essays on contemporary topics ranging from the elemental problems of air and water to the vibrant art scene and the architectural adventurism of the city’s “hyperbuildings.” Generously illustrated, this guide provides helpful maps and suggested itineraries as well as practical recommendations for hotels, restaurants, museums, and other sites. Taking readers to lakeshores, down into the subway, and around the bustling art districts, Beijing is the ultimate introduction to this extraordinary city for travelers and armchair explorers alike.