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Chinese Revolution
Chinese Revolution BIBLIOGRAPHY The term Chinese Revolution refers to a series of great political upheavals in China between 1911 and 1949 that brought the classical, Confucian, imperial era to an end and eventually led to Communist rule and the establishment of the People’ Read more |
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Social Settlements
Social Settlements Social settlements, or settlement houses, are centers for neighborhood social services and social reform activities typically located in densely populated urban areas. During the Progressive Era (1890 Read more |
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May Fourth Movement
May Fourth Movement (1919), first mass movement in modern Chinese history. On May 4, about 5,000 university students in Beijing protested the Versailles Conference (Apr. 28, 1919) awarding Japan the former German leasehold of Jiaozhou, Shandong prov. Demonstrations and strikes spread to Shanghai,... Read more |
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Alexander Dovzhenko
Alexander Dovzhenko Soviet filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenko (1894–1956) made several Russian–cinema classics of the 1920s and 1930s, but his heroic epics of peasants triumphing over a harsh, forbidding landscape never quite fully fit the political ideologies of the Stalinist era.... Read more |
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Potlatch Corp
Potlatch Corporation EARLY HISTORY GREAT DEPRESSION: CRISIS AND MERGER POSTWAR ERA: NEW PRODUCTS AND GEOGRAPHIC EXPANSION THE MADDEN ERA, 1971– Read more |
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Equal Rights Amendment
THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT The Amendment Debate over ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment provided one of the key political struggles of the 1970s. Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972. However, before it could become part of the Constitution, it had to be ratified by... Read more |
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Victorian
Victorian Art The Victorian era (1837 Read more |
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Educational reform
EDUCATION REFORM overviewjacob e. adams jr. reports of historical significancerick ginsberg OVERVIEW In 1983 American education reform entered a new era. It was in that year that the federal government published a report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education entitled A Nation... Read more |
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Hampden clubs
Hampden clubs (1812–17), named after the 17th-cent. parliamentarian, marked a new era of agitation for parliamentary reform after the radicalism of the 1790s. Founded by Major Cartwright, the clubs were at first gentry-dominated, but spread rapidly in the provinces among the working classes.... Read more |
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Japanese literature
Japanese literature literary works produced in the language of the islands of Japan . See also Asian drama . Earliest Writings Although Japanese and Chinese are different languages, the Japanese borrowed and adapted Chinese ideographs early in the 8th cent. in order to render their spoken... Read more |
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Chinese Cinema During the Era of Reform: The Ingenuity of the System
...Ying. Chinese Cinema During the Era of Reform: The...the surge of both Chinese- and Western...phenomenon of "mainland Chinese cinema," preoccupation...filmmakers and the Chinese Communist ... |
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Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the...
...Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and...and that where Chinese scholarship takes...essays on contemporary Chinese films. The essay...detailed breakdown of Chinese terminologies and...China in the advanced reform ... |
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Jason McGrath. Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and...
...Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and...Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature...sources to examine how Chinese society and culture...transformed in the era of marketization...designated a new ... |
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In Foreign Parts: How I defied Instructor Wang and escaped from the factory
...It was 1980, the dawn of the reform era, and the Chinese government was encouraging young...bathhouse, the library and the cinema belonged to the factory. My...local television stations. A Chinese publisher loved my translation... |
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Chinese Minister On Sino-U.S. Cultural Exchanges For 21st Century
...undoubtedly usher in a new era of cultural exchanges...which is why the Chinese know more about the...foreign films shown in Chinese cinemas each year, some 15...will stick to its reforms and opening up and the Chinese ... |
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All fired up
...influential writers in the post-reform era. For one, he is the most filmed...introducing a brand new language into Chinese literature and cinema the language of ordinary people...plus years before Wang Shuo, Chinese fiction did not really ... |
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Lights!, camera!, kai shi!; in depth interviews with China's new generation...
...new generation of movie directors working in the era of recent reforms. Interviews are organized by theme, with each director chiming in on chapters on new Chinese cinema, male directors and representations of women, censorship... |
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...City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract...Chang. Britain's Chinese Eye: Literature...s Economy: Rural Reform and Agricultural...Politics of Modern Chinese Fiction and Film...Intellectual Foundations of Chinese ... |
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Light on a bamboo screen
...not have Chinese cinema in mind. But China...isolation did little for Chinese arts. Operas such...sympathise with the Chinese people in a way we...clampdown by the Chinese authorities in the...With this wider reform has come ... |
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Shuyu Kong. Consuming Literature: Best Sellers and the Commercialization of...
...effects of market reforms in the culture industry...of contemporary Chinese culture have tended...dramatic growth of Chinese cultural studies...scholarship on modern Chinese culture, with literature...topics--including cinema, popular ... |
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