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The evolution of China's market economy is one of the most
important developments in the world economy in the twenty-first
century. The diverse contributors to this book provide a unique set
of essays that evaluate legal, regulatory, and economic aspects of
China's transition from planned to market economy. While
market-oriented policy reform in China has led to substantial
growth and progress since the onset of the reform period in 1979,
many challenges remain. This study begins with a general survey of
China's transition to a market economy and is followed by more
elaborate analyses of specific sectors. The authors consider
China's changing regulatory structure and the relationships of this
structure to Chinese markets, developments in markets for goods,
services, and production factors, changing trade patterns, and the
determinants of foreign direct investment and its role in overall
capital formation. They provide a comprehensive assessment of
market reforms in China. In-depth yet accessible, the book will be
of great value to policy makers, business planners, students and
researchers concerned with China, as well as those interested in
the world economy at large.
Gomez-Pena Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten
classic writings from Guillermo Gomez-Pena, a figure who stands
alone as unique and ground-breaking in the history of performance
art and as the artistic director of transdisciplinary performance
troupe La Pocha Nostra. Throughout this collection, Gomez-Pena
tackles literature, theory, pedagogy, activism and live art in an
eclectic mix that demonstrates how the process of writing is
simultaneously a performative exercise in embodied language. The
writing stands as a call for action, utilizing what Gomez-Pena
terms "imaginary activism" and "radical citizenship"; it invites
the reader to embrace a borderless, polygendered, crossgenerational
and race-literate ethos. This timely anthology comes straight from
the heart of a troubled Trump-era United States and a crime
cartel-ridden Mexico. Artists and writers are prompted to engage in
radical performance pedagogy within the civic realm and to think of
themselves as public intellectuals and "artivists" participating in
the great debates of our times. By encouraging emerging artists and
writers to wildly imagine their practice beyond the normative art
world and academia, this book is a fundamental read for scholars
and students of performance art, political theatre, cultural
studies, literature, poetry, activism and race and gender politics.
Performance Art, Live or Time-Based Art, Cultural Studies,
Experimental Poetry, Multiculturalism, Social Practice,
Chicano/Latino/Border Art & Literature, Relational Aesthetics,
Public Art, Artivism, Activism, Psychomagic Ritual, Literary
Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnic & Gender Studies,
Queer & Women Studies, Post-Colonial Theory, Techno-Art,
Cyborgian Studies, Exoticized & Fetishized Identities,
Deconstruction Stereotypes & Binaries, Anti-Essentialism,
Anti-Nationalism, Radical Citizenship, Anti-Racism, Race &
Gender Literacy
Gomez-Pena Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten
classic writings from Guillermo Gomez-Pena, a figure who stands
alone as unique and ground-breaking in the history of performance
art and as the artistic director of transdisciplinary performance
troupe La Pocha Nostra. Throughout this collection, Gomez-Pena
tackles literature, theory, pedagogy, activism and live art in an
eclectic mix that demonstrates how the process of writing is
simultaneously a performative exercise in embodied language. The
writing stands as a call for action, utilizing what Gomez-Pena
terms "imaginary activism" and "radical citizenship"; it invites
the reader to embrace a borderless, polygendered, crossgenerational
and race-literate ethos. This timely anthology comes straight from
the heart of a troubled Trump-era United States and a crime
cartel-ridden Mexico. Artists and writers are prompted to engage in
radical performance pedagogy within the civic realm and to think of
themselves as public intellectuals and "artivists" participating in
the great debates of our times. By encouraging emerging artists and
writers to wildly imagine their practice beyond the normative art
world and academia, this book is a fundamental read for scholars
and students of performance art, political theatre, cultural
studies, literature, poetry, activism and race and gender politics.
Performance Art, Live or Time-Based Art, Cultural Studies,
Experimental Poetry, Multiculturalism, Social Practice,
Chicano/Latino/Border Art & Literature, Relational Aesthetics,
Public Art, Artivism, Activism, Psychomagic Ritual, Literary
Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnic & Gender Studies,
Queer & Women Studies, Post-Colonial Theory, Techno-Art,
Cyborgian Studies, Exoticized & Fetishized Identities,
Deconstruction Stereotypes & Binaries, Anti-Essentialism,
Anti-Nationalism, Radical Citizenship, Anti-Racism, Race &
Gender Literacy
The broad scope of the Applications of the Moessbauer Effect to
interdisciplinary subjects makes this volume an outstanding source
of information to researchers and graduate students, who will find
the unique results of Moessbauer spectroscopy a valuable aid and
complement to their research in conjunction with other techniques.
In this volume, applications to mineralogy, catalysis, soil
science, amorphous materials, nanoparticles, magnetic materials,
nanotechnology, metallurgy, corrosion, and magnetism, have been put
together in original works produced by invited speakers and
different research teams across the continent. Reprint from
Hyperfine Interactions (HYPE), volumes 202/1-3 and 203/1-3, 2011.
The study of disease entities as complex as Crohn's dis ease will
increasingly require comprehensive knowledge of formerly unrelated
areas of the medical sciences. To promote this broad approach, a
conference was organized in which geneticists, morphologists,
immunologists, and virologists participated as well as clinicians
whose work is focused on Crohn's disease. Ample time was given to
the presentation of major new findings in each of these areas, and
comments were given by the participants in the various sections.
This approach yielded many new ideas, because indiv iduals with
very different backgrounds were able to address old problems from
fresh angles. This volume, published in January, 1981, contains the
papers presented dur ing the wor kshop held in June, 1980, in
Noordwijk/Leiden, The Netherlands. In addition, we have in cluded
the extensive discussions, edited by experts in the field, which
followed each presentation. Finally, each main category is followed
by a summary of the topic covered as well as many valuable
conclusions concerning the significance of recent work and ideas
for new directions in research. In the Preface, J.B. Kirsner gives
a comprehensive review of the material, and in an Afterword A.J.Ch.
Haex deals with a num ber of other aspects. We believe that this
volume will be of value to a wide spectrum of scientists and
clinicians and that it will help to establ ish the mul tid
isciplinary approach to Crohn' s dis ease as the one that should
predominate in the future.
2021 Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local
and Regional History, Webb County Heritage Foundation Since 1898,
residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have
reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George
Washington's birthday. The celebration can last a whole month, with
parade goers reveling in American and Mexican symbols; George
Washington saluting; and "Pocahontas" riding on horseback. An
international bridge ceremony, the heart and soul of the
festivities, features children from both sides of the border
marching toward each other to link the cities with an embrace.
!Viva George! offers an ethnography and a history of this
celebration, which emerges as both symbol and substance of
cross-border community life. Anthropologist and Laredo native
Elaine A. Pena shows how generations of border officials, civil
society organizers, and everyday people have used the bridge ritual
to protect shared economic and security interests as well as
negotiate tensions amid natural disasters, drug-war violence, and
immigration debates. Drawing on previously unknown sources and
extensive fieldwork, Pena finds that border enactments like
Washington's birthday are more than goodwill gestures. From the Rio
Grande to the 38th Parallel, they do the meaningful political work
that partisan polemics cannot.
The Virgin of Guadalupe, though quintessentially Mexican, inspires
devotion throughout the Americas and around the world. This study
sheds new light on the long-standing transnational dimensions of
Guadalupan worship by examining the production of sacred space in
three disparate but interconnected locations - at the sacred space
known as Tepeyac in Mexico City, at its replica in Des Plaines,
Illinois, and at a sidewalk shrine constructed by Mexican nationals
in Chicago. Weaving together rich on-the-ground observations with
insights drawn from performance studies, Elaine A. Pena
demonstrates how devotees' rituals - pilgrimage, prayers, and
festivals - develop, sustain, and legitimize these sacred spaces.
Interdisciplinary in scope, "Performing Piety" paints a nuanced
picture of the lived experience of Guadalupan devotion in which
different forms of knowing, socio-economic and political coping
tactics, conceptions of history, and faith-based traditions
circulate within and between sacred spaces.
The Virgin of Guadalupe, though quintessentially Mexican, inspires
devotion throughout the Americas and around the world. This study
sheds new light on the long-standing transnational dimensions of
Guadalupan worship by examining the production of sacred space in
three disparate but interconnected locations - at the sacred space
known as Tepeyac in Mexico City, at its replica in Des Plaines,
Illinois, and at a sidewalk shrine constructed by Mexican nationals
in Chicago. Weaving together rich on-the-ground observations with
insights drawn from performance studies, Elaine A. Pena
demonstrates how devotees' rituals - pilgrimage, prayers, and
festivals - develop, sustain, and legitimize these sacred spaces.
Interdisciplinary in scope, "Performing Piety" paints a nuanced
picture of the lived experience of Guadalupan devotion in which
different forms of knowing, socio-economic and political coping
tactics, conceptions of history, and faith-based traditions
circulate within and between sacred spaces.
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