Utopia and Modernity in China. Contradictions in Transition, Hardback - ***

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

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The Magical Imagination: Magic and Modernity in Urban England, 1780–1914 - Karl Bell

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...

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The Canadian Constitution in Transition reflects on the ideas that will shape the development of Canadian constitutional law in the decades to come.

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Merging the histories of capitalism with political and cultural analysis, Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between indigenous people and sett...

China's transition from a planned economy to a market economy has succeeded in producing more than a decade of phenomenal growth. How the difficult...

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Is African Christianity a religious marketplace now dominated by only two big players, the Catholic Church and Pentecostals?

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In Confessional Cinema, Jorge Perez analyzes how cinema engaged the shifting role of religion during the last fifteen years of Francisco Franco's d...

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

Reducere. Qigong--a regimen of body, breath, and mental training exercises--was one of the most widespread cultural and religious movements of late-twentieth...

A critical study of race, racialization and representation in the context of Turkish modernization

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DescriptionChinese New Media Cultures in Transition: Weibo and the Carnivalesque is an important contribution to international scholarship on Chine...

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...

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