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by Kerry Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
China has created its own distinctive pathway to becoming one of the world's largest economies – and the country's economic and political development over the next decade will have profound implications for the rest of the world. Knowledge of contemporary China is therefore essential for anyone who...
Beyond Market and Hierarchy
Patriotic Capitalism and the Jiuda Salt Refinery, 1914-1953
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Based on extensive archival research, Beyond Market and Hierarchy reconstructs how Fan waged modern China's war of salts. Led by his Jiuda Salt Industries, the nascent refined salt industry battled revenue farmers who, as a group, monopolized the production and distribution of evaporated salt.
Working Class Formation in Taiwan
Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945-2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This book offers a fresh look at Taiwan's state workers in from the postwar period to the present day and examines the rise and fall of labor insurgency in the past two decades. Challenging the conventional image of docile working class, it unearths a series of workers resistance, hidden and public, in a high authoritarian era.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
A distinguished international team of historians examines the dynamics of global and regional change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Providing uniquely broad coverage, encompassing North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and...
by G. Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
This is the first book to concentrate not only on the triumph of the vernacular in modern China but also on the critical role of the rise of the vernacular in world literature, invoking parallel cases from countries throughout Europe and Asia.
The End of Russian Philosophy
Tradition and Transition at the Turn of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The End of Russian Philosophy describes and evaluates the troubled state of Russian philosophical thought in the post-Soviet decades. The book suggests that in order to revive philosophy as a universal, professional discipline in Russia, it may be necessary for Russian philosophy to first do away with the messianic traditions of the 19th century.
Writing Postcommunism
Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight.
Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010
Histories of the Elusive Self
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how lives were lived and written within and against the rules of the auto/biographical game.
Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage
Chinese Theatre Placed and Displaced
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
The first book-length study in any language of the presence and influence of Mei Lanfang, the internationally known Chinese actor who specialized in female roles on the twentieth-century international stage. Tian investigates Mei Lanfang's presence and influence and the transnational and intercultural appropriations of his art.
C.P. Snow
The Dynamics of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Novelist and cultural commentator C.P. Snow was a large and controversial presence in his lifetime but his work has been largely neglected since his death in 1980. This is the first 21st-century book to offer a clear, informed and sympathetic survey of all his novels and major non-fiction books and to affirm their importance for the world today.
by Michael Benton
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.S. Naipaul, this book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together....
The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945
Volume Eight
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new mapping of women's writing ranges from feminine middlebrow novels to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to crime fiction, and from West End drama to the literature of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
Ireland and Romanticism
Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
This collection by leading scholars in the field provides a fascinating and ground-breaking introduction to current research in Irish Romantic studies. It proves the international scope and aesthetic appeal of Irish writing in this period, and shows the importance of Ireland to wider currents in Romanticism.
by Wheeler Winston Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Focusing on "dark" or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and filmmakers (Vanishing Point, Marcel Hanoun), whose work has largely been ignored, but whose influence and importance is clearly present.