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Building a New China in Cinema
The Chinese Left-Wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world. This unique book explores the history, ideology, and aesthetics of China's left-wing cinema movement, a quixotic film culture that was as political as...
Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture
Cannibalizations of the Canon
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and instead...
Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal
The Fifteenth-Century Reformation of Newar Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Will Tuladhar-Douglas sheds new light on an important branch of Mahayana Buddhism and establishes the existence, character and causes of a renaissance of Buddhism in the fifteenth century in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. He provides the basis for the historical study of Newar Buddhism as one distinct...
by Tania Raffass
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The Soviet Union is often characterised as nominally a federation, but really an empire, liable to break up when individual federal units, which were allegedly really subordinate colonial units, sought independence. This book questions this interpretation, revisiting the theory of federation, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic American Studies theorize America as constituted by and accountable to an assemblage of interconnected islands, archipelagoes, shorelines, continents,...
Just Like Us
The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
A powerful and moving account of four young women from Mexico who have lived most of their lives in the United States and attend the same high school. Two of them have legal documentation and two do not. Just Like Us is their story.
A stunning work of in-depth journalism in the tradition of...
Orange County
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
The story began in 1918, when Gustavo Arellano's great-grandfather and grandfather arrived in the United States, only to be met with flying potatoes. They ran, and hid, and then went to work in Orange County's citrus groves, where, eventually, thousands of fellow Mexican villagers joined them. Gustavo...
by Timothy Black
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Based on an unprecedented eighteen-year study, the center of this riveting book are three engaging streetwise brothers who provide powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. With profound lessons regarding the...
by Sam Quinones
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
A cult classic of a book from Mexico’s vital margins – stories of drag queens and Oaxacan Indian basketball players, popsicle makers and telenovela stars, migrants, farm workers, a slum boss, and a doomed tough guy.Sam Quinones - one of the great contemporary reporters out of Mexico, the border,...
Hearts and Hands
Creating Community in Violent Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Hearts and Hands deals with many of the difficult issues addressed in Luis Rodríguez’s memoir of gang life, Always Running, but with a focus on healing through community building. Empowered by his experiences as a peacemaker with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodríguez offers a unique book...
Hearts and Hands, Second Edition
Creating Community in Violent Times
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Hearts and Hands focuses on healing through community building. Empowered by thirty years of experience with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodríguez offers a unique book of change. He makes concrete suggestions, shows how we can create nonviolent opportunities for youth today, and redirects...
by Peter Zarrow
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century. It explains how China's defeat by Japan in 1895 prompted an explosion of radical reform proposals and the beginning of elite...
Debating Human Rights in China
A Conceptual and Political History
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Tracing the concept of human rights in Chinese political discourse since the late Qing dynasty, this comprehensive history convincingly demonstrates that—contrary to conventional wisdom—there has been a vibrant debate on human rights throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on little-known sources,...
China Unbound
Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of such key events in the recent...