Chinese Grammatology. Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958, Paperback - Yurou Zhong

For nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. In Chinese Grammatology, Yurou Zhong traces the origins, trans...

Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, China's leading critic shatters the myth of progress and re...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jack Meng-Tat (Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, Assistant Professor of Histor...

Originally published in Spanish as La oscuridad y las luces: capitalismo, cultura y revoluciaon by Edhasa in 2010.

Reducere. What does it mean to have grown up female in the Mao era? How can the remembered details of everyday life help shed light upon those turbulent time...

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This book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis - the leading et...

Exploring the conflict between China's rapid modernisation and the west, as well as its own traditional values -- KOPublisher: Pluto PressNumber of...

Understanding China and the Chinese is of paramount importance in today's world. With China's rapid economic growth and increasing political influe...

Female loyalists occupied a nearly impossible position during the American Revolution. Unlike their male counterparts, loyalist women were effectiv...

Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, this title reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in th...

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Female loyalists occupied a nearly impossible position during the American Revolution. Unlike their male counterparts, loyalist women were effectiv...

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The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the first comprehe...

Reducere. A rta chineza a brocartului Shu. Capodopere ale patrimoniului oral si material al umanitatii Shu este numele antic al Provinciei Sichuan, situata i...

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Graham (University of Oxford China Centre, UK) HutchingsNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Di...

The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccu...

Reducere. Now known to the Chinese as the ten years of chaos, the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76) brought death to thousands of Chinese and persecution...

This lively anthology explores the impact of the art, images and ideas associated with Maoism on artistic practices around the world from 1945 to t...

Reducere. In time for the centenary of the beginning of the Russian Revolution, a new edition of the Russian Nobelist's major workThe month of November 1916 ...

Looking mainly at Derrida's early work - the three texts published in 1967: Of Grammatology, Speech and Phenomenon and Writing and Difference - Deb...

Award-winning author China Mieville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, China Mie...

Reducere. A must-have for professional, clinical hypnotherapists, but also a wonderful resource for advocates of self-hypnosis. With well over a hundred scri...

Reducere. In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of institutional transformations associated with modern...

Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text explores the events that lead to the rise of communis...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1968, the director of USAID coined the term "green revolution" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hun...

Contributor(s): Author: Jacques DerridaTranslator: Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakForeword by: Judith ButlerJacques Derrida's revolutionary approach to ...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Emily SunNumber of pages: 176Collection: Lit ZPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 235 x 18Cover t...

Reducere. Based on extensive archival research, this book offers the first historical examination of the arrest, trial, and punishment of the leaders of the ...

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The breathless pace of China's economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people's inner landscape. Faced with...

China's convulsive Cultural Revolution was conceived in 1966 as a 'great revolution that would touch the people to their very souls'. How are we to...

Reducere. In this original and controversial book, historian and philosopher Reviel Netz explores the development of a controlling and pain-inducing technolo...

This lively anthology explores the impact of the art, images and ideas associated with Maoism on artistic practices around the world from 1945 to t...

Reducere. No other book offers this inside look at the strategies of the Soviet leadership. John F. Kennedy did not live to write his memoirs; Fidel Castro w...

Publisher: PicadorAuthor(s): Yang JishengTranslator: Guo JianNumber of pages: 768Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 209 x 36Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. Designed for those who have studied Modern Chinese, but who have had no exposure to Classical Chinese before, this work is a set of two volumes: th...

Reducere. Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the power...