Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village, Paperback - William Hinton

Reducere. More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China'...

Reducere. The Unknown Cultural Revolution challenges the established narrative of China's Cultural Revolution, which assumes that this period of great social...

A rare, ever-relevant compendium of texts and manifestos from women artists on gender and race issues in cultural institutionsOriginally published ...

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Up-to-date one-volume edition of a standard textFor decades students and scholars have turned to the two-volume Documentary History of Religion in ...

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This book makes a novel contribution to the sociolinguistics of globalization by examining language and social change in the tourism destination of...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Jack P. GreeneIn our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William LavenderWhen Lady Jane, orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in Charlestown, South Carolina, in 1776, she ...

In this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immediacy t...

DescriptionA deep and radically original exploration of Taoist and Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist wisdom through the lens of the life and work of Tu Fu, wide...

The Experience of Revolution in Stuart Britain and Ireland - Michael J. Braddick, David L. Smith

Reducere. First banned in its native land, this earthy, unflinching memoir has become one of the biggest bestsellers in the history of China. In 1968, a ferv...

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

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

Reducere. Evoking Studs Terkel, Shen Fuyu delivers a rollicking deep dive into working life in a small village in rural China, tracing the last 100 years of ...

Village Witch describes life as a Village Wisewoman in the wilds of West Cornwall. The first part of the book documents the tortuous and sometimes ...

Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.Publisher: ...

Reducere. China has undergone a remarkable process of urbanization, but a significant portion of its citizens still live in rural villages. To gain better ac...

William Doyle chronicles the unfolding events of the French Revolution, from the quarrels of the first revolutionaries with the king, to the Terror...

The story of religion in America is one of unparalleled diversity and protection of the religious rights of individuals. But that story is a muddie...

Now brought completely up to date, the new edition of this classic work on documentary films and filmmaking surveys the history of the genre from 1...

Learn all about the strange goings on in Cotton Tree Village with these four traditional tales from the Caribbean, beautifully told here by award-w...

A moving memoir of a young nurse's experience trekking with a local health team in rural Nepal, Beyond the Next Village chronicles how, after arriv...

In this collection of poems, written in sequence with the unfolding of the narrator, we explore all of the habits, thought processes, and love stor...

Reducere. With this groundbreaking collection, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new generation will be introduced to...

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Antony ThomasIllustration(s): 8 pages of images; 8 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 256Publ...

Outbreak in the Village is a fascinating account of the personal and professional journey of Dr. Doug Jenkinson, physician and researcher. Over the...

China's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was...

A myth-busting popular history of the German Revolution focusing on the roles of women, workers and ordinary people

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Carlene O'ConnorNumber of pages: 400Collection: An Irish Village MysteryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 4...

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In 1926 a young Peruvian woman picked up a gun, wrested her infant daughter from her husband, and liberated herself from the constraints of a patri...

Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.Publisher: ...

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A global future in the history of a single village After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and lite...

Reducere. On October 1, 2019, the People's Republic of China (PRC) will celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding. And what an eventful and tumultuous s...

A beautifully compelling and liberating guide to the original nature of Zen in ancient China by renowned author and translator David Hinton. Buddhi...

Reducere. A very quiet village. A very loud boy.Wandering bears and cougars have scared the villagers into always staying so very quiet. But Woni is a very l...