Music as Mao's Weapon. Remembering the Cultural Revolution, Paperback - Lei X. Ouyang

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Lei X. OuyangIllustration(s): 13 black & white photographs, 13 music examples, 13 tables, glossar...

Reducere. Mao and his policies have long been demonised in the West, with the Cultural Revolution considered a fundamental violation of human rights. As Chin...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Cultural Revolution, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Cultur...

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Reducere. The trial of Cultural Revolution leaders, including Mao's widow and her Gang of Four, was the signal event in China's post-Mao transition. In its w...

In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a...

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A history of the Cultural Revolution in communist China, which ran from 1962 to 1976. The idea was to purge the country of bourgeois, capitalist el...

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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...

Jan Eric Johnson's autobiography set during the turbulent Vietnam and Civil Rights era is a reveling look into the real life adventures and challen...

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DescriptionThe dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revol...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Chenxin JiangNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 227 x 19Cover type:...

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...

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

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

Reducere. Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, au...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Professor Selina ToddNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 23Cover type: Paperb...

Exam Board: Edexcel Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level Hi...

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Reducere. In this stunning, lyrical memoir that includes a curriculum guide, author Chun Yu recalls the Chinese Cultural Revolution from the perspective of a...

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A concise explanation of a still controversial movement. Even as we approach its 50th anniversary, the Chinese Communist Party will not allow open ...

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Cultural Revolution Culture, often denigrated as pure propaganda, was liked not only in its heyday but continues to be enjoyed today. Considering t...

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Creating a new culture does not only mean one’s own individual “original” discoveries. It also, and most particularly, means the diffusion in a cri...

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Based on original fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as research material from other conflict zones, Sexual Violence as a Weapo...

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. With this volume we would like to celebrate critically the importance of the Revolution of 1989, as a problem-event that cannot be worked out in an...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Denise Von GlahnNumber of pages: 384Collection: Music in American LifePublication date: 2021Dimen...