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 Family Revolution: Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture By Hui Faye Xiao 2014 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0295993499 | PDF | 2 MB As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution-an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships. While the nuclear family has become a privileged realm of romance and individualism symbolizing the post-revolutionary "freedoms" of economic and affective autonomy, women's roles in particular have been transformed, with the ideal "iron girl" of socialism replaced by the feminine, family-oriented "good wife and wise mother."Problems and contradictions in this new domestic culture have been exposed by China's soaring divorce rate. Reading popular "divorce narratives" in fiction, film, and TV drama, Hui Faye Xiao shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China. While these narratives present women's cultivation of wifely and maternal qualities as the cure for family disintegration and social unrest, Xiao shows that they in fact reflect a problematic resurgence of traditional gender roles and a powerful mode of control over supposedly autonomous private life.  Ben Hillman, Gray Tuttle, "Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China's West" English | 2016 | ISBN: 0231169981 | PDF | pages: 278 | 1.3 mb Despite more than a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China's western borderlands are awash in a wave of ethnic unrest not seen since the 1950s. Through on-the-ground interviews and firsthand observations, the international experts in this volume create an invaluable record of the conflicts and protests as they have unfolded―the most extensive chronicle of events to date. The authors examine the factors driving the unrest in Tibet and Xinjiang and the political strategies used to suppress them. They also explain why certain areas have seen higher concentrations of ethnic-based violence than others.  Patrick H. O'Neil, "Essentials of Comparative Politics" English | 2017 | pages: 449 | ISBN: 0393624587 | PDF | 28,9 mb The most accessible conceptual text  Enjoy Life Outside, Inspired Projects: DIY Al Fresco Encounters by Linda Bodo English | 2009 | ISBN: 1894728084 | 144 pages | PDF | 103 MB Why do it yourself? Stress relief, an outlet for creativity, a sense of accomplishment...the list is endless. DIY guru Linda Bodo shares 15 of her favourite projects for your outdoor living spaces. By providing easy-to-follow steps, material lists, timelines, and helpful construction tips supported by straightforward colour photography and illustrations Linda makes joining the ranks of the creative simple and rewarding. The only challenge on your part is deciding which project to start. Find your passion. Become a DIY enthusiast.  Subhan Zein, "English Language Teacher Preparation in Asia: Policy, Research and Practice " English | ISBN: 1138095362 | 2018 | 302 pages | PDF | 1445 KB Bringing together a comprehensive range of extended research-based chapters, English Language Teacher Preparation in Asia provides comprehensive insight into policy, research, and practical aspects of teacher preparation for English teachers at pre-service level across multiple contexts in Asia.  Andrea Ruddick, "English Identity and Political Culture in the Fourteenth Century " English | ISBN: 1107007267 | 2013 | 369 pages | PDF | 121 MB This broad-ranging study explores the nature of national sentiment in fourteenth-century England and sets it in its political and constitutional context for the first time. Andrea Ruddick reveals that despite the problematic relationship between nationality and subjecthood in the king of England's domains, a sense of English identity was deeply embedded in the mindset of a significant section of political society. Using previously neglected official records as well as familiar literary sources, the book reassesses the role of the English language in fourteenth-century national sentiment and questions the traditional reliance on the English vernacular as an index of national feeling. Positioning national identity as central to our understanding of late medieval society, culture, religion and politics, the book represents a significant contribution not only to the political history of late medieval England, but also to the growing debate on the nature and origins of states, nations and nationalism in Europe.  Sara M. Wijma, "Embracing the Immigrant: The participation of metics in Athenian polis religion (5th-4th century BC)" English | 2014 | ISBN: 3515106421 | PDF | pages: 190 | 1.1 mb What does it mean to belong to a community? How is membership conceptualised and in what way is the position of newcomers negotiated and the community's cohesion secured? Although no clear definition of citizenship survives from classical Athens, many sources include the statement that belonging to the polis consisted of participation in public life, often specified as sharing in the ritual obligations of the Athenians. Contrary to the still prevalent understanding of the Athenian polis as a city-state run by politically privileged men, this book explores this notion of the polis as a cultic and participatory community. In that context it reconsiders the position of immigrants in Athens, who are commonly viewed as outsiders or even anti-citizens in modern research. It is argued that as immigrants were gradually included in Athenian polis religion as metics, they should, at least to a degree, be considered members of the polis. In order to arrive at a better understanding of the ways in which the demos conceptualised this separate membership for immigrants, this book investigates the participation of metics in several polis and deme rites  Elemental Difference and the Climate of the Body by Emily Anne Parker English | July 1, 2021 | ISBN: 0197575072, 0197575080 | 322 pages | PDF | 2 MB In nineteenth-century Europe, differences among human bodies were understood to be matters of scientific classification. At the height of scientific acceptance, it was unthinkable that race or sex or diagnosis or indigence were invention. Today, however, differences among human bodies are  Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities by Amara Geffen, Ann Rosenthal, Chris Fremantle, Aviva Rahmani 2022 | ISBN: 1613321465 | English | 320 pages | PDF | 241 MB Ready-to-go, vetted approaches for facilitating artistic environmental projects  Early Astronomy by Hugh Thurston English | PDF | 1994 | 277 Pages | ISBN : 038794107X | 23.9 MB People must have watched the skies from time immemorial. Human beings have always shown intellectual curiosity in abundance, and before the invention of modern distractions people had more time-and more mental energy-to devote to stargazing than we have. Megaliths, Chinese oracle bones, Babylonian clay tablets, and Mayan glyphs all yield evi dence of early peoples' interest in the skies. |
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