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This volume considers the confluence of World History and
historical materialism, with the following guiding question in
mind: given developments in the field of historical materialism
concerned with the intersection of race, gender, labour, and class,
why is it that within the field of World History, historical
materialism has been marginalized, precisely as World History
orients toward transnational socio-cultural phenomenon,
micro-studies, or global histories of networks? Answering this
question requires thinking, in an inter-related manner, about both
the development of World History as a discipline, and the place of
economic determinism in historical materialism. This book takes the
position that historical materialism (as applied to the field of
World History) needs to be more open to the methodological
diversity of the materialist tradition and to refuse narrowly
deterministic frameworks that have led to marginalization of
materialist cultural analysis in studies of global capitalism. At
the same time, World History needs to be more self-critical of the
methodological diversity it has welcomed through a largely
inclusionary framework that allows the material to be considered
separately from cultural, social, and intellectual dimensions of
global processes.
This new book investigates the relationship of film to history,
power, memory, and cultural citizenship. The book is concerned with
two central issues: firstly, the participation of film and
filmmakers in articulating and challenging projects of modernity;
and, secondly, the role of film in shaping particular
understandings of self and other to evoke collective notions of
belonging. These issues call for interdisciplinary and
multi-layered analyses that are ideally met through dialogue across
place, time, identities and genres. The contributors to this volume
enable this dialogue by considering the ways in which cultural
expression and identity expressed through film serve to create
notions of belonging, group identity, and entitlement within modern
societies.
This new book investigates the relationship of film to history,
power, memory, and cultural citizenship. The book is concerned with
two central issues: firstly, the participation of film and
filmmakers in articulating and challenging projects of modernity;
and, secondly, the role of film in shaping particular
understandings of self and other to evoke collective notions of
belonging. These issues call for interdisciplinary and
multi-layered analyses that are ideally met through dialogue across
place, time, identities and genres. The contributors to this volume
enable this dialogue by considering the ways in which cultural
expression and identity expressed through film serve to create
notions of belonging, group identity, and entitlement within modern
societies.
This volume considers the confluence of World History and
historical materialism, with the following guiding question in
mind: given developments in the field of historical materialism
concerned with the intersection of race, gender, labour, and class,
why is it that within the field of World History, historical
materialism has been marginalized, precisely as World History
orients toward transnational socio-cultural phenomenon,
micro-studies, or global histories of networks? Answering this
question requires thinking, in an inter-related manner, about both
the development of World History as a discipline, and the place of
economic determinism in historical materialism. This book takes the
position that historical materialism (as applied to the field of
World History) needs to be more open to the methodological
diversity of the materialist tradition and to refuse narrowly
deterministic frameworks that have led to marginalization of
materialist cultural analysis in studies of global capitalism. At
the same time, World History needs to be more self-critical of the
methodological diversity it has welcomed through a largely
inclusionary framework that allows the material to be considered
separately from cultural, social, and intellectual dimensions of
global processes.
In this book an international group of scholars examines China's
acceptance and ultimate rejection of Soviet models and practices in
economic, cultural, social, and other realms.
This volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to
its reformist present as China makes a way forward through very
differently conceived and contested visions of the future. In the
context of early twenty-first century problems and the failures of
global capitalism, is China's history of revolutionary socialism an
aberration that is soon to be forgotten, or can it serve as a
resource for creating a more fully human and radically democratic
China with implications for all of us? Ranging from the early years
of China's revolutionary twentieth-century to the present, the
essays collected here look at the past and present of China with a
view toward better understanding the ideas, ideals, and people who
have dared to imagine radical transformation of their worlds and to
assess the conceptual, political, and social limitations of these
visions and their implementations. The volume's chapters focus on
these issues from a range of vantage points, representing a
spectrum of current scholarship. The first half of the book brings
new insights to understanding how early-twentieth century
intellectuals interpreted ideas that allowed them to break with
China's past and to envision new paths to a modern future. It
treats of Chen Duxiu, a founder of the Communist party, Mao Zedong,
and Mao in relation to the non-Communist Liang Shuming and with the
Dalai Lama. With continuing threads of nation and nationalities, of
peasants, utopias and dystopias linking the chapters, the book's
second half looks broadly at the consequences of the
implementations of radical ideas, at the same time critiquing our
accepted frameworks of analysis. Moving up to the present, the book
investigates the effects of the reforms since the 1980s on
long-term environmental degradation and on the emergence of a
capitalist rural economy. It gives an unsparing view into
contemporary rural China through independent films. The book
concludes with an analysis of the unshakable persistence of the
shibboleth, "the rise of China," in popul
Winner of the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeThe Physics of
Imaginary Objects, in fifteen stories and a novella, offers a very
different kind of short fiction, blending story with verse to evoke
fantasy, allegory, metaphor, love, body, mind, and nearly every
sensory perception. Weaving in and out of the space that connects
life and death in mysterious ways, these texts use carefully honed
language that suggests a newfound spirituality.
It is well known that the Soviet Union strongly influenced China in
the early 1950s, since China committed itself both to the
Sino-Soviet alliance and to the Soviet model of building socialism.
What is less well known is that Chinese proved receptive not only
to the Soviet economic model but also to the emulation of the
Soviet Union in realms such as those of ideology, education,
science, and culture. In this book an international group of
scholars examines China's acceptance and ultimate rejection of
Soviet models and practices in economic, cultural, social, and
other realms. The chapters vividly illustrate the wide-ranging and
multi-dimensional nature of Soviet influence, which to this day
continues to manifest itself in one critical aspect, namely in
China's rejection of liberal political reform.
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