Author: Ruth Lor MalloyPublisher: William Morrow
ISBN: 9780688076214
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Fielding's People's Republic of China, 1989
Author: Ruth Lor MalloyPublisher: William Morrow
ISBN: 9780688076214
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Fielding's Budget Europe, 1989
Author: Joseph RaffPublisher: William Morrow
ISBN: 9780688046804
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Fielding's Caribbean, 1989
Author: Margaret ZellersPublisher: William Morrow
ISBN: 9780688071356
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Fielding's People's Republic of China 1992
Author: Ruth Lor MalloyPublisher: William Morrow
ISBN: 9780688101633
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Fielding's Europe
Author: Cumulative Book Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2232
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
American Studies of Contemporary China
Author: David L. ShambaughPublisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9781563242663
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Examines the historical evolution of contemporary China studies in the United States, reflecting the growth and maturation of the field since the Communist Party seized power in 1949.
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Author: The Sounds of Social Space
Author: Paul KendallPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824877802
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
A giant statue of a six-pipe musical instrument stands in the heart of Kaili city. Yet despite its prominent placement, intended to convey the essence of the city, residents hold extremely low opinions of music-making in Kaili, particularly when compared to the “authentic” music found in surrounding ethnic minority villages. In this engaging, accessible work, author Paul Kendall investigates this conundrum and comes to terms with conflicting representations of a small southwestern Chinese city branded “the homeland of one hundred festivals.” Drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s triad of social space, the book explores the relationship between Kaili’s branding, built environment, and everyday life: how China’s post-Mao built environment hinders and hides everyday music-making, even in a tourist destination for ethnic music; how residents themselves deny or downplay the existence of ethnic music in the city, despite the government’s efforts to promote it; how amateur musicians have constructed generational hierarchies of musical practice within a shifting cityscape. Kendall argues that increased focus on the small city helps counter a tendency to conceive China as either timeless village or futuristic metropolis and enables a more comprehensive understanding of the urban experience, both in China and beyond. He shows that many Kaili inhabitants recognize not only a rural-urban divide—long a dominant geographical notion of China—but also a more complex conceptualization of village, small city, and big city. By interweaving theories of authenticity with an innovative interpretation of space, Kendall shows how the category of “fake” minority emerged from this small city as a surprisingly positive form of self-identification, suggesting that there are ways of not being ethnic, even in often-exoticized southwest China. The Sounds of Social Space makes a distinctive contribution across a range of disciplinary interests, including Chinese studies, urban studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology.
Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose ArnyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2896
Book Description