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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “qingxiang yang”
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  • Chinese Millennials

    What is to be done?

    by Qingxiang Yang ...
    Translated by Todd Foley ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Through a unique combination of anecdotes, wide-ranging literary analysis, cultural commentary, and interviews, author Yang Qingxiang identifies certain core problems faced by his generation, and asks how they might be solved. Yang’s frank, sincere, and often unflattering assessment of contemporary Chinese society offers an illuminating and large-scale analysis of the new society that has taken ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Sound of Salt Forming

    Short Stories by the Post-80s Generation in China

    Edited by Dr. Geng Song, Qingxiang Yang ...
    China's post-80s generation, sometimes referred to as Generation Y, is the first whose members have grown up entirely within the reformist era. They are keen to distinguish themselves from their predecessors in every aspect of life. To Western eyes, this generation of Chinese, who are highly engaged with the world, display the ambiguities and paradoxes associated with China's economic rise: They ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    by Dubravka Ugresic ...
    Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać ...
    Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for LiteratureAs with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's final work, A Muzzle for Witches, is uncategorizable. On its surface, the book is an conversation with the literary critic Merima Omeragić, covering topics such as "Women and the Male Perspective," "The Culture of (Self)Harm," and "The Melancholy of Vanishing."But the book is more ... Read more

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  • The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

    Edited by Kirk Denton ...
    The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the ... Read more

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  • Youth Politics in Putin's Russia

    Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs

    by Julie Hemment ...
    Series series New Anthropologies of Europe
    Julie Hemment provides a fresh perspective on the controversial nationalist youth projects that have proliferated in Russia in the Putin era, examining them from the point of view of their participants and offering provocative insights into their origins and significance. The pro-Kremlin organization Nashi ("Ours") and other state-run initiatives to mobilize Russian youth have been widely reviled ... Read more

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  • Minjian

    The Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals

    by Sebastian Veg ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead of harking back to the traditional role of the literati or pronouncing on democracy and modernity like 1980s public intellectuals, they derive legitimacy from their work with the vulnerable and the ... Read more

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  • Self as Method

    Thinking Through China and the World

    by Biao Xiang, Qi Wu ...
    Translated by David Ownby ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves. Consisting of three conversations between Xiang Biao ... Read more

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  • Voices of New China

    Chinese Young Adults Talk About Their Lives

    by C.J. Shane ...
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  • The 70's Biweekly

    Social Activism and Alternative Cultural Production in 1970s Hong Kong

    Edited by Lu Pan ...
    Taking The 70’s Biweekly—an independent youth publication in the 1970s Hong Kong—as the main thread, this edited volume investigates an unexplored trajectory of Hong Kong’s cultural and art production in the 1970s that represents the making of a dissent space by independent press and activist groups in the city. The 70’s Biweekly stands out from many other independent magazines with its unique ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society

    Edited by Youna Kim ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society is an accessible and interdisciplinary resource that explores the formation and transformation of Korean culture and society.Each chapter provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking overview on key topics, including: compressed modernity, religion, educational migration, social class and inequality, popular culture, digitalisation, diasporic ... Read more

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  • Storytelling in Siberia

    The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World

    by Robin P Harris ...
    Series series Folklore Studies in Multicultural World
    Olonkho, the epic narrative and song tradition of Siberia’s Sakha people, declined to the brink of extinction during the Soviet era. In 2005, UNESCO’s Masterpiece Proclamation sparked a resurgence of interest in olonkho by recognizing its important role in humanity’s oral and intangible heritage.Drawing on her ten years of living in the Russian North, Robin P. Harris documents how the Sakha have ... Read more

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  • The Art of Cloning

    Creative Production During China's Cultural Revolution

    by Pang Laikwan ...
    Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformityIn the 1950s, a French journalist joked that the Chinese were “blue ants under the red flag,” dressing identically and even moving in concert like robots. When the Cultural Revolution officially began, this uniformity seemed to extend to the mind. From the outside, China had become a monotonous ... Read more

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