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Author | : Wei-Ping Lin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2021-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1009021036 |
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The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move forward. This in-depth ethnography and social history of the islands focuses on how individual citizens redefined themselves and reimagined their society. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, Wei-Ping Lin shows how islanders used both traditional and new media to cope with the conflicts and trauma of harsh military rule. She discusses the formation of new social imaginaries through the appearance of 'imagining subjects', interrogating their subjectification processes and varied uses of mediating technologies as they seek to answer existential questions. This title is Open Access.
Author | : Wei-Ping Lin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2021-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316519376 |
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An innovative ethnography and social history of the Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan.
Author | : Susan Breau |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2013-01-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199661960 |
Download Q & A Revision Guide International Law 2013 and 2014 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Q&A International Law offers a lifeline to students revising for exams. It provides clear guidance from an experienced examiner on how best to tackle exam questions, and gives students the opportunity to practise their exam technique and assess their progress.
Author | : Vanessa Hood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Communication |
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In a fairy tale land a dragon hybrid named Draco lived. He didn't have a story, so he acted grumpy around everyone. A fire dragon named Flare tries to teach him about effective communication. Can Flare help Draco to solve his problem?
Author | : Ed Morales |
Publisher | : Bold Type Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1568588984 |
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A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the US. Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew impossible to ignore in 2017, in the wake of Hurricane María, as the physical destruction compounded the infrastructure collapse and trauma inflicted by the debt crisis. In Fantasy Island, Ed Morales traces how, over the years, Puerto Rico has served as a colonial satellite, a Cold War Caribbean showcase, a dumping ground for US manufactured goods, and a corporate tax shelter. He also shows how it has become a blank canvas for mercenary experiments in disaster capitalism on the frontlines of climate change, hamstrung by internal political corruption and the US federal government's prioritization of outside financial interests. Taking readers from San Juan to New York City and back to his family's home in the Luquillo Mountains, Morales shows us the machinations of financial and political interests in both the US and Puerto Rico, and the resistance efforts of Puerto Rican artists and activists. Through it all, he emphasizes that the only way to stop Puerto Rico from being bled is to let Puerto Ricans take control of their own destiny, going beyond the statehood-commonwealth-independence debate to complete decolonization.
Author | : Christy Constantakopoulou |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2010-07-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191615455 |
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Christy Constantakopoulou examines the history of the Aegean islands and changing concepts of insularity, with particular emphasis on the fifth century BC. Islands are a prominent feature of the Aegean landscape, and this inevitably created a variety of different (and sometimes contradictory) perceptions of insularity in classical Greek thought. Geographic analysis of insularity emphasizes the interplay between island isolation and island interaction, but the predominance of islands in the Aegean sea made island isolation almost impossible. Rather, island connectivity was an important feature of the history of the Aegean and was expressed on many levels. Constantakopoulou investigates island interaction in two prominent areas, religion and imperial politics, examining both the religious networks located on islands in the ancient Greek world and the impact of imperial politics on the Aegean islands during the fifth century.
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Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1998-03 |
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Author | : Isabelle Adriani |
Publisher | : Youcanprint |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2016-05-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8892608096 |
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Castaways in Time is about three English orphans, Thomas, Tip and Fred who are shipwrecked on the mysterious Island of Time. It’s one adventure after another as the magical inhabitants of the Island of Time appear, cast in different roles according to the youngsters’ needs. They meet different fairies who help them come to terms with past traumas, Princess Marvellous, a young man’s dream come true, and icy Queen Fantasia who has big problems of her own. Time starts to behave in unpredictable ways when the four Magi of the Elements come onto the scene. Years fly by and the three are already young adults when they are finally allowed to return to their own time/space dimension. One magical character travels back to Earth with the trio, and everything seems to be back to normal again. At least until the Queen’s Hourglass unexpectedly turns up.
Author | : Nancy K. Miller |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317960920 |
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In the era of identity politics, whose is the I of cultural criticism? And what does the invention of an autobiographical persona have to do with contemporary theory? In Getting Personal, Nancy K. Miller reflects upon the ways in which contingencies of identity and location shape the writing of academic argument and the living of an academic life. Getting Personal explores the new territory of feminist cultural studies and its connections to literary interpretation. The book is organized around a number of academic scenes in which Miller analyses the stakes of feminist critical performance. The focus on occasions, from the conference to the seminar to the professional colloquium, produces an autobiographical perspective on the mini-drama of institutional politics - whether faculty struggles over the canon in elite universities, or student strivings for self-authorization in large urban ones. Writing as a feminist critic, Miller describes the dilemmas of a responsible pedogogic practice: the contradictory demands of authority and complicity for a feminist teacher of literature. Getting Personal examines the rhetorical strategies of a feminism traversed by internal debates over its own self-representations. Working through and among quotations of voices that might otherwise not address each other, Miller assesses a crisis and offers a project for moving on.
Author | : Rachel N. Becker |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2024-03-29 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1003854567 |
Download Valuing Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera Fantasias for Woodwind Instruments Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book approaches opera fantasias – instrumental works that use themes from a single opera as the body of their virtuosic and flamboyant material – both historically and theoretically, concentrating on compositions for and by woodwind-instrument performers in Italy in the nineteenth century. Important overlapping strands include the concept of virtuosity and its gradual demonization, the strong gendered overtones of individual woodwind instruments and of virtuosity, the distinct Italian context of these fantasias, the presentation and alteration of opera narratives in opera fantasias, and the technical and social development of woodwind instruments. Like opera itself, the opera fantasia is a popular art form, stylistically predictable yet formally flexible, based heavily on past operatic tradition and prefabricated materials. Through archival research in Italy, theoretical analysis, and exploration of European cultural contexts, this book clarifies a genre that has been consciously stifled and societal resonances that still impact music reception and performance today.