Visions For The Masses

Author : Fan-Pen Li Chen
Publisher : Cornell East Asia Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions for the Masses written by Fan-Pen Li Chen and published by Cornell East Asia Series. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Chinese shadow plays contains seven selected traditional shadow plays from the Qing and early Republican periods from Shaanxi and Shanxi. A minor operatic genre, the Chinese shadow theatre provides one of the best avenues for examining the mentality and sense of humor of the silent masses. Although Shaanxi sports the largest number of shadow traditions in China and is where the art form is most vibrant, its shadow plays have never before been published in either Chinese or English. Translated from rare hand-copied play scripts, this volume includes the most literary and refined plays of the genre as well as coarser popular plays and farcical Post-midnight skits. It also features a survey of the state of the shadow theatre in contemporary China, extensive critical introductions and bibliography.

Author : William A. Callahan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199339546
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Dreams written by William A. Callahan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After celebrating their country's three decades of fantastic economic success, many Chinese are now asking, "What comes next?" How can China convert its growing economic power into political and cultural influence around the globe? William A. Callahan's China Dreams gives voice to China's many different futures by exploring the grand aspirations and deep anxieties of a broad group of public intellectuals. Stepping outside the narrow politics of officials vs. dissidents, Callahan examines what a third group--"citizen intellectuals"--think about China's future. China Dreams eavesdrops on fascinating conversations between officials, scholars, soldiers, bloggers, novelists, film-makers and artists to see how they describe China's different political, strategic, economic, social and cultural futures. Callahan also examines how the PRC's new generation of twenty- and thirty-somethings is creatively questioning "The China Model" of economic development. The personal stories of these citizen intellectuals illustrate China's zeitgeist and a complicated mix of hopes and fears about "The Chinese Century," providing a clearer sense of how the PRC's dramatic economic and cultural transitions will affect the rest of the world. China Dreams explores the transnational connections between American and Chinese people, providing a new approach to Sino-American relations. While many assume that 21st century global politics will be a battle of Confucian China vs. the democratic west, Callahan weaves Chinese and American ideals together to describe a new "Chimerican dream."

Author : Steven Manly
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601637209
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of the Multiverse written by Steven Manly and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2011-02-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of a multiple universe reality is no longer considered speculative or implausible by many physicists; rather, it is deemed inescapable. Distinct concepts of the multiverse spring from quantum mechanics, cosmology, string theory-based cosmology, and ideas about a mathematics based reality that borders on the religious.In this accessible and entertaining book, Dr. Manly guides you on a tour of the many multiverse concepts and provides the non-technical background to understand them.Visions of the Multiverse explores questions such as:•Just what is a multiverse?•What are the different concepts of the multiverse and how are they related?•Is it possible to determine if we live in a multiverse...or even in multiple types of multiverses?•How do religious concepts of the afterlife and popular ideas based on the Law of Attraction relate to the scientific visions of the multiverse?Dr. Manly discusses a wide variety of fascinating concepts from relativity and the fundamental particles and forces of nature to dark matter, dark energy, and quantum mechanics in an unintimidating and conversational tone.Is humanity is in the midst of a new Copernican revolution? You decide.

Author : Shaun O'Connell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558498198
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boston written by Shaun O'Connell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich selection of writings by notable preachers, politicians, poets, novelists, essayists, and diarists.

Author : Lloyd L. Lee
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081653408X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navajo Sovereignty written by Lloyd L. Lee and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion to Diné Perspectives: Revitalizing and Reclaiming Navajo Thought, each chapter of Navajo Sovereignty offers the contributors' individual perspectives. This book discusses Western law's view of Diné sovereignty, research, activism, creativity, and community, and Navajo sovereignty in traditional education. Above all, Lloyd L. Lee and the contributing scholars and community members call for the rethinking of Navajo sovereignty in a way more rooted in Navajo beliefs, culture, and values.

Author : Arthur S M Lim
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814518174
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vision For The World: Eye Surgeons' Solution To Mass Blindness — A Major World Medical Problem written by Arthur S M Lim and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996-06-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of mass blindness today stems largely from cataract which accounts for a total of 40 million cataract victims in the world — and it will worsen with the ageing population. Fortunately, this problem can be resolved with cost effective extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) and posterior chamber implantation (PCI).This book highlights how the use of ECCE and PCI can restore normal vision to cataract victims around the world.A successful approach is to establish training centres. The success of the International Intraocular Implant Training Centre (IIITC) in the Peoples' Republic of China is cited to show that implant surgery for cataracts can be successfully performed in communities in developing nations in Asia with appropriate training and supervision. The centre has since yielded excellent results with cost effective ECCE and PCI. The book challenges eye surgeons around the world to unite to address a global need to contain world cataract blindness.

Author : Christa J. Olson
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271062541
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutive Visions written by Christa J. Olson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-13 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments—as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity—struggled to reconcile the presence of Ecuador’s large indigenous population with the dominance of a white-mestizo minority. Even as indigenous people were excluded from civic life, images of them proliferated in speeches, periodicals, and artworks during Ecuador’s long process of nation formation. Tracing how that contradiction illuminates the textures of national-identity formation, Constitutive Visions places petitions from indigenous laborers alongside oil paintings, overlays woodblock illustrations with legislative debates, and analyzes Ecuador’s nineteen constitutions in light of landscape painting. Taken together, these juxtapositions make sense of the contradictions that sustained and unsettled the postcolonial nation-state.

Author : Luis Royo
Publisher : NBM
ISBN 13 : 1561633550
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions written by Luis Royo and published by NBM. This book was released on 2003 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest collection of amazing fantasy art with a deeply sensual touch. All never-before-seen! In full-colour throughout.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sabbath Recorder written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Vanderbilt Würdemann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ophthalmology written by Henry Vanderbilt Würdemann and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: