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Shanghai Massacre
On 19 February 1927, the city of Shanghai fell silent as a general strike gripped the factories of the industrial district. A magnet for foreign traders and businessmen (British, …
Modern Art for a Modern China
How did art reform fit into the many initiatives for social and cultural change that contributed to the New Cultural Movement that transformed the Chinese cultural landscape during …
CIA's Secret War in Tibet
Defiance against Chinese oppression has been a defining characteristic of Tibetan life for more than four decades, symbolized most visibly by the much revered Dalai Lama. But the …
History of Contemporary Chinese Art
Chinese art has experienced its most profound metamorphosis since the early 1950s, transforming from humble realism to socialist realism, from revolutionary art to critical …
China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters
In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the …
Space, Politics, and Cultural Representation in Modern China
Regarding revolution as a spatial practice, this book explores modes of spatial construction in modern China through a panoramic overview of major Chinese revolutionary events and …
Liu Xiaodong
The remarkable plein air paintings of Liu Xiaodong (b.1963), which chronicle everyday lives within our diverse modern world, are the focus of this first monograph of his career to …
Ronja Røverdatter. Gaveudgave
Ronja Røverdatter er Astrid Lindgrens mesterværk af en fantastisk, drabelig og kærlig fortælling om røverbørnene Ronja og Birk, om deres frie liv i de vilde skove og om, hvordan …
Le nouvel empire des ›kami‹
How does shinto has taken part into the Japanese conquest of the Manchurian frontier?Modern shinto is often seen as a unified ritual system based on shrines which are considered …
Death Throes of a Dynasty
The letters of Charles and Bessie Ewing provide eyewitness accounts of the social upheaval and warfare that shook turn-of-the-century China. In addition to discussing their …
Astrology and Cosmology in Early China
The ancient Chinese were profoundly influenced by the Sun, Moon and stars, making persistent efforts to mirror astral phenomena in shaping their civilization. In this pioneering …
Legal Transplantation in Early Twentieth-Century China
"e;Practicing law"e; has a dual meaning in this book. It refers to both the occupational practice of law and the practicing of transplanted laws and institutions to perfect …