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    Chinese history and culture (2016-)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Language: English
    Series Statement: Masters of Chinese studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Yu, Yingshi, author Essays on Chinese history and culture
    DDC: 951
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    Keywords: China History ; China Civilization ; China ; Zivilisation ; Kultur ; Geschichte
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    The fox spirit, the stone maiden, and other transgender histories from late imperial China (2024)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231214131 , 9780231214124
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 360 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sommer, Matthew H. The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China
    DDC: 306.760951
    Keywords: 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.) ; 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.) ; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.) ; c 1500 to c 1600 ; c 1600 to c 1700 ; c 1700 to c 1800 ; c 1800 to c 1900 ; zweite Hälfte 16. Jahrhundert (1550 bis 1599 n. Chr.) ; Sex customs History 18th century ; Sex customs History 19th century ; Gender identity History 18th century ; Gender identity History 19th century ; Sex role History 18th century ; Sex role History 19th century ; Asian history ; Asiatische Geschichte ; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 ; Gender Studies: Transgender, Transsexuelle, Intersexuelle ; Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism ; HISTORY / Asia / China ; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 ; SOC064020 ; China ; China ; China ; Transgender ; Geschichte 1368-1911
    Abstract: "In Transgender in Imperial China, Matthew Sommer offers a close reading of a series of remarkable, well-documented court cases from the 18th and 19th century Qing dynasty legal archives that deal with sex and gender difference. The book explores practices in their specific historical context and avoids imposing trans-historical identities on people in the past, understanding, in the vein of Susan Stryker's work, that "transgender people" are those who "move away from" the gender assigned at birth and "cross over" the gender boundaries imposed by their society, without assuming any specific motivation or destination for that movement. Sommer details the experience of individuals assigned male at birth who were living as women (and were punished very harshly for the crime of "masquerading in women's attire"), but also includes under the sign "transgender" a range of personae not usually considered in this context, such as cross-dressing "boy actresses" of the opera and those who "left the family" by becoming Buddhist or Daoist clergy or eunuchs in imperial service and renouncing normative gender roles based on marriage and procreation. These cases explore a range of themes in Chinese law, society, and culture, and illuminate how many forms of gender transgression were sanctioned by law in Qing society. In considering all of these scenarios together, Sommer's book unpacks the full story of how sex and gender were understood in the Qing era"--
    Abstract: This book is a groundbreaking study of transgender lives and practices in late imperial China. Through close readings of court cases, as well as Ming and Qing fiction and nineteenth-century newspaper accounts, Matthew H. Sommer examines the social, legal, and cultural histories of gender crossing
    Description / Table of Contents: Transgender Paradigms in Late Imperial China -- The Paradigm of the Cross-Dressing Predator -- Clergy as Wolves in Sheep's Clothing -- Creativity Inspired by Torment? -- The Fox Spirit Medium -- The Truth of the Body -- The Hustler.
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    The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China (2024)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231560207
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (381 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sommer, Matthew H., 1961 - The fox spirit, the stone maiden, and other transgender histories from late imperial China
    Keywords: 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.) ; 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.) ; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.) ; c 1500 to c 1600 ; c 1600 to c 1700 ; c 1700 to c 1800 ; c 1800 to c 1900 ; zweite Hälfte 16. Jahrhundert (1550 bis 1599 n. Chr.) ; Asian history ; Asiatische Geschichte ; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 ; Gender Studies: Transgender, Transsexuelle, Intersexuelle ; Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism ; HISTORY / Asia / China ; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 ; SOC064020 ; China ; China
    Abstract: This book is a groundbreaking study of transgender lives and practices in late imperial China. Through close readings of court cases, as well as Ming and Qing fiction and nineteenth-century newspaper accounts, Matthew H. Sommer examines the social, legal, and cultural histories of gender crossing.
    Abstract: Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions in the Text -- Introduction -- 1. Transgender Paradigms in Late Imperial China -- 2. The Paradigm of the Cross-Dressing Predator -- 3. Clergy as Wolves in Sheep's Clothing -- 4. Creativity Inspired by Torment? -- 5. The Fox Spirit Medium -- 6. The Truth of the Body -- 7. The Hustler -- Epilogue -- Character List -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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    The Tarikh-i ḥamidi : a late-Qing Uyghur history (2023)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231210027 , 9780231210034
    Language: English
    Pages: xxxiii, 476 Seiten , Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sairami, Musa, 1836 - 1917 The tarikh-i ḥamidi
    DDC: 951/.6035
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    EH 6670
    Keywords: Uighur (Turkic people) History 19th century ; Muslims History 19th century ; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) History 19th century ; Asia, Central History 19th century ; Anthologien (nicht Lyrik) ; Anthologies (non-poetry) ; Asian history ; Asiatische Geschichte ; HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia ; HISTORY / Asia / China ; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General ; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) Ethnic relations ; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) Politics and government ; Central Asia ; China ; China ; Zentralasien ; Sinkiang ; Qingdynastie ; Uiguren ; Geschichte 1864-1877
    Abstract: "The Tarikh-i Ḥamidi was written in the first decade of the twentieth century, when the region sat in the middle of Eurasia's tumultuous transformations. Its people were still grappling with the violence of a conflict (1864-1877) that had separated them from the Qing empire (1636-1912) and briefly held out the promise of an independent Islamic state. The subsequent Qing reconquest brought with it a more aggressive and assimilatory form of Chinese power. This drama of history lies near the heart of modern Uyghur identity. The author of the Tarikh-i Ḥamidi, Musa Sayrami, wrote it not only as a means to recover that conflict as it faded from memory but also to grapple with the question of Qing and Chinese power. He draws on the rich traditions of Perso-Islamic history writing, as well as his own experiences and oral histories, to present a critique of power from below"
    Abstract: The Tarikh-i áamidi is an epic and tragic history that chronicles a mass rebellion by the Muslims of Xinjiang against the China-based Qing empire from its beginnings in 1864 to the Qing reconquest of 1877 and its aftermath
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction Terminology Preface Prolegomenon The First Epic The Second Epic Description of Moghulistan Notes Bibliography Index of People Index of Places
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    The sounds of Mandarin : learning to speak a national language in China and Taiwan, 1913-1960 (2023)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231209021 , 0231209029 , 9780231209038 , 0231209037
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 412 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chen, Janet Y., 1972- Sounds of Mandarin
    DDC: 306.44/951
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    EG 9050
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    ES 129
    Keywords: Geschichte 1913-1960 ; Language policy / China / History / 20th century ; Language policy / Taiwan / History / 20th century ; Mandarin dialects / Political aspects / China ; Mandarin dialects / Political aspects / Taiwan ; Chinesisch ; Standardsprache ; Sprachpolitik ; China ; Taiwan ; China ; Taiwan ; Sprachpolitik ; Chinesisch ; Standardsprache ; Geschichte 1913-1960
    Abstract: "How did people in China learn to speak a common language? Out of a dizzying array of regional and local vernaculars, many of them mutually unintelligible, how was the idea of a spoken standard forged? How and when did that idea become reality? The Sounds of Mandarin answers these questions by viewing the history of linguistic change from the ground up. Exploring how nation-building in the PRC era became entwined with linguistic standardization, Janet Y. Chen reveals a project of linguistic engineering riven with conflicts, as speech became a site of contestation and quotidian negotiation. By locating experiences of language learning in historical and local contexts, this study explains why nationalism is a necessary but ultimately insufficient lens for understanding China's national language. It also explains why, even today, the project of standard speech remains contested and incomplete in both China and Taiwan"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Dueling sounds and contending tones -- In search of Standard Mandarin -- The national language in exile -- Taiwan babel -- The common language of new China
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    On the edge : feeling precarious in China (2023)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231212151 , 9780231212144
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 378 pages , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hillenbrand, Margaret, 1972- On the edge
    DDC: 305.5/680951
    Keywords: Marginality, Social ; Precarious employment ; Food security ; Uncertainty ; China ; Saisonarbeiter ; Prekariat ; Erniedrigung
    Abstract: "On the Edge probes precarity in contemporary China through the lens of the dark and angry cultural forms that chronic uncertainty has generated since the millennium. Drawing on and expanding from social science work, the only currently available academic treatment of precarity in China, Hillenbrand argues that a substantial minority of Chinese workers-as many as 300 million people-exist in what she calls "zombie citizenship," a state of dehumanizing exile from the law and its safeguards. She further demonstrates that culture is a core space in which this rage and conflict break cover, via a range of aesthetic forms in which different class actors confront one another in postures of antagonism. This friction articulates itself in volatile, break-out cultural forms: suicide shows, brutal performance art, confrontational livestreaming, waste art, and poetry from the Foxconn factory floor. The book's approach is vigorously interdisciplinary, fusing digital media, art history, literary criticism, and performance studies with citizenship, protest, and labor studies. It places both the distinctive Chinese experience and the vital role of culture at the heart of our global understanding of what entrenched insecurity and civic jeopardy do to the bonds of the social contract"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: grasping the precarious -- The delegators -- The ragpickers -- The vocalists and the ventriloquists -- The cliffhangers -- The microcelebrities -- Conclusion: viral precarity.
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    The labor of reinvention : entrepreneurship in the new Chinese digital economy (2023)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231195317 , 9780231195300
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 292 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Zhang, Lin, 1984 - The labor of reinvention
    DDC: 330.951
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    LB 85440
    Keywords: Digitalisierung ; Entrepreneurship ; Hochtechnologie ; China ; Entrepreneurship ; High technology industries ; China Economic conditions 2000- ; China ; Internetökonomie ; Electronic Commerce ; Entrepreneurship ; Geschichte 2008-2021
    Abstract: "From start-up entrepreneurs in China's equivalent Silicon Valley to the booming phenomenon of e-commerce rural villages, IT and new internet-based industries are shaping ideas and practices regarding labor and identity in China. Digital entrepreneurship was seen as a way to energize China's slowing economy after the 2008 global financial crisis-but its implementation and practice, while successful in some respects, has also reinforced traditional ideas about state power, gender, and what it means to be Chinese. Lin Zhang argues that these new digital initiatives have simultaneously empowered and exploited digital entrepreneurs and laborers. Through her examination and critique of the new media economy in China, Zhang highlights the historical ruptures, continuities, and contradictions of entrepreneurial labor of self-reinvention in China. In The Labor of Reinvention, Lin Zhang examines digital entrepreneurship in three different areas of Chinese society to provide a multifaceted and ground-level view of how the Chinese are grappling with the new digital economy. She recounts the story of how one U.S.-educated IT entrepreneur's initial application of Google's "people-centric" management style gave way to nationalist discourse to ensure state funding for his crypto-chip startup. Far from Beijing, Zhang considers the mixed success of new ventures in rural areas that combine modern e-commerce with centuries-old practices of familial production. Finally, she discusses a group of internationally mobile upper-class Chinese women whose ability to create a space for themselves in the new digital economy selling luxury goods was curtailed by the patriarchal Chinese state."
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    Internationalist aesthetics : China and early Soviet culture (2022)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231199193 , 9780231199186
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 353 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Studies of the Harriman Institute of Columbia University
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tyerman, Edward Internationalist aesthetics
    DDC: 303.48/24705109042
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    EC 1856
    Keywords: Communism and culture History ; Communist aesthetics ; Mass media and culture History ; Soviet Union Foreign relations ; China Foreign relations ; China In mass media ; China Foreign public opinion, Soviet Union ; Soviet Union Foreign public opinion, Chinese ; Ästhetik ; Kultur ; China ; Sowjetunion ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "While the Third Communist International (Comintern) supported nationalist revolution in China, Soviet writers and film-makers traveled to China, met with Chinese students in Moscow, and sought to reimagine China for a Soviet audience as the next site of world revolution. Their artistic experiments constituted a search for an "internationalist aesthetics": a mode of representation that could overcome the exoticism of imperialist culture and produce transnational sympathies between populations previously considered culturally distant. Contributing to a recent cultural turn in the study of socialist internationalism, Internationalist Aesthetics positions China in the 1920s as the central space for Soviet culture's attempt to imagine how internationalism was supposed to look and feel. Tyerman traces the reimagining of China through the multiple genres and media of the early Soviet cultural system, including reportage, film, theater, and biography. This account offers new insight into the transnational dynamics that shaped Soviet culture and socialist aesthetics, and illuminates a crucial chapter in Sino-Russian relations, one of the most significant international relationships of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"--
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    The urbanization of people : the politics of development, labor markets, and schooling in the Chinese city (2022)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231205092 , 9780231205085
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 337 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fridman, Eli, 1977 - The urbanization of people
    DDC: 379.51
    Keywords: Education and state ; Children of migrant laborers Education ; Migrant labor Social conditions ; Urbanization ; Urban policy ; China Population policy ; China Social conditions 2000- ; China ; Wanderarbeit ; Verstädterung ; Bildungspolitik ; Sozialgeschichte 2011-2021
    Abstract: "During the summer of 2011, the Beijing municipal government launched population control measures to clear the children of migrant workers from the city. Just weeks before the beginning of the school year, bulldozers demolished more than two dozen schools serving families who had migrated to the capital from China's vast rural hinterland. It therefore came as something of a surprise when soon thereafter the central government began calling for "the urbanization of people," by which they meant allowing tens of millions of rural migrants to get official residency and access to social services in the cities where they were employed. Over the course of the 2010s, it became increasingly clear that the central government envisioned a citizenship regime in which an individual's position within the national socio-spatial hierarchy would correspond as closely as possible to their levels of human capital-high-end cities for the high-end population, low-end places for the low-end population. Using the school as a lens on the urbanization process, Eli Friedman investigate how city governments in China are managing flows of people into the city, which groups of people are included in which types of cities and why, and what the socio-economic consequences of this approach are. Drawing on more than 200 in-depth interviews with migrant parents and teachers, a careful analysis of policy documents, and direct observation in the classroom, Friedman argues that urban governments in China are providing access to public education precisely to those that need it least: school admissions heavily favor families with already high levels of economic, cultural, and social capital, a phenomenon he refers to as the "inverted welfare state." The Urbanization of People shows how this inverted welfare state functions in practice and how it changes understandings of the process of urbanization in China"--
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    Line of advantage : Japan's grand strategy in the era of Abe Shinzō (2022)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231204675 , 9780231204668
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 311 Seiten , Diagramme, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Green, Michael J., 1961 - Line of advantage
    DDC: 306.20952
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    ML 8200
    Keywords: Abe, Shinzō ; Political leadership ; Geopolitics ; Regierung ; Geschichte ; Einflussgröße ; Internationale Politik ; Indo-Pacific Region Strategic aspects ; Japan Politics and government 21st century ; National security History 21st century ; Japan Economic conditions 21st century ; Japan Foreign relations 1989- ; Japan ; USA ; China ; Japan ; Abe, Shinzō 1954-2022 ; Politische Führung ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Internationale Politik ; Geopolitik ; Japan ; China ; Südkorea ; Südostasien ; Außenpolitik ; Sicherheitspolitik
    Abstract: Introduction -- The Historic Roots of Modern Japanese Strategy -- China -- The United States -- The Indo-Pacific -- Korea -- Internal Balancing -- Conclusion: The End of the Yoshida Doctrine.
    Abstract: "No other country has devised a grand strategy for managing China's rising economic and military power as deliberately or successfully as Japan. Seeking to counter Chinese ambitions toward regional hegemony, Japan has taken an increasingly assertive role in East Asia and the world. During the tenure of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, the country pursued closer security cooperation with the United States and other democracies, established a more centralized national defense system, and advanced rules and norms to preserve the open regional order in the Indo-Pacific that is crucial to its prosperity and survival-all while managing an important economic relationship with China. In Line of Advantage, Michael J. Green provides a groundbreaking and comprehensive account of Japan's strategic thinking under Abe. He explains the foundational logic and the worldview behind this approach, from key precedents in Japanese history to the specific economic, defense, and diplomatic priorities shaping contemporary policy toward China, the United States, the two Koreas, and the Indo-Pacific region. Drawing on two decades of access to Abe and other Japanese political, military, and business leaders, Green provides an insider's perspective on subjects such as how Japan pursued competition with China without losing the benefits of economic cooperation. Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of Japan's new active role, Line of Advantage sheds new light on a period with profound implications for the future of U.S. competition with China and international affairs in Asia more broadly."--
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    Going low : how profane politics challenges American democracy (2022)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231205726 , 9780231205733
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 300 Seiten , 23 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Curtis, Finbarr Going low
    DDC: 306.20973
    Keywords: Political culture / United States / History / 21st century ; Democracy / United States / History / 21st century ; United States / Politics and government / 21st century ; Political parties / United States / History / 21st century ; Nationalism / United States / History / 21st century ; Sports / Political aspects / United States / History / 21st century ; Freedom of speech / United States / History / 21st century ; Freedom of religion / United States / History / 21st century ; États-Unis / Politique et gouvernement / 21e siècle ; Nationalisme / États-Unis / Histoire / 21e siècle ; Liberté d'expression / États-Unis / Histoire / 21e siècle ; Liberté religieuse / États-Unis / Histoire / 21e siècle ; Sports / Aspect politique / États-Unis / Histoire / 21e siècle ; Democracy ; Freedom of religion ; Freedom of speech ; Nationalism ; Political culture ; Political parties ; Politics and government ; Sports / Political aspects ; United States ; 2000-2099 ; History
    Abstract: "Recent events have shown that, for many on the far right, nothing-no matter how offensive, immoral, or even illegal-is impermissible in pursuit of power. But the left is not immune to such policies and tactics, often against itself. Such transgressive social rule-breaking, argues Finbarr Curtis, is particularly amenable to the analytical tools of religious studies. Religion itself is about rules, about what is sacred and what is profane, a contested binary whose differing definitions and the practices they produce, protect, and profane participate in shaping politics. According to this view, profanation is a deliberate provocation to the social order that, if allowed to stand unpunished or without apology, precipitates a crisis of authority. Liberal models of free speech and religious freedom are ill-equipped to respond to such challenges, since they classify religion (and by extension quasi-religious identity and other categories with "sacred" norms) as a private rather than a public matter, unable to recognize that religious beliefs, ethics, and practices often mandate public morals and behaviors in social and political life. Insulting religious (or in-group identity) beliefs and morals--rules--has real-world consequences. The inability to prevent such acts of transgression marks a loss of power on the part of the state (or other institutional entity) and the social order and is a threat to sovereignty. The examples discussed in Going Low-including Black opposition to religious nationalism, the alt left and political correctness on campus, complicity claims, Steve Bannon's global Holy War, justified violence against blasphemy (Texas version), Nones and the spiritual marketplace, and the future of white nationalism after Trump-demonstrate how diverse political and religious groups share a commitment to winning at any cost that challenges the authority of liberalism and democratic institutions"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- The reality of Donald J. Trump -- Steve Bannon and the clash of civilizations -- Cartoons and guns -- Christian values and the white evangelical -- Masterpiece cakeshop and the art of religious freedom -- NFL protests and the profane rites of something -- Fear and safety on campus
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    Made in censorship : the Tiananmen movement in Chinese literature and film (2022)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231204002 , 9780231204019
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 236 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chen, Thomas Made in censorship
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Chen, Thomas Made in Censorship
    DDC: 303.3/760951
    Keywords: Mass media policy ; Censorship ; Propaganda, Chinese ; Propaganda, Communist ; China History Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 ; China ; Tian'anmen-Massaker ; Zensur ; Propaganda
    Abstract: "Conventional wisdom has it that the three taboos of China--the three Ts--are Taiwan, Tibet, and Tiananmen. During the recent 30th anniversary of the massacre, there was an outpouring of stories from Chinese students and immigrants about the shock and disbelief they felt at learning about the event, which had been so effectively erased from existence at home by Chinese censorship. And yet, Tom Chen's Made in Censorship is about, as the subtitle has it, the Tiananmen Movement in Chinese literature and film. Exploring such disparate works as official PLA propaganda films; Aesopian allegorical novels; underground videos; and art at the edge of censorship (a novel published in a literary journal but rejected for book publication, a movie officially sanctioned for filming but never released on the mainland, an internet novel), Chen argues that censorship is both prohibitive and generative. Prohibition encourages the development of alternative forms of communication, but also, the censorship regime requires new forms of collaboration. The communal mode of production under censorship involves, among others, publishers, editors, critics, the audience, and not least of all, censors themselves. And the state does not merely proscribe mention of Tiananmen but also puts forward its own narrative. The book also includes Chen's own story of being censored and reflections on what censorship around Tiananmen means for China studies"--
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    Generation gap : why the baby boomers still dominate American politics and culture (2022)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231553810
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Munger, Kevin M Generation gap
    DDC: 305.2
    Keywords: Baby boom generation Political activity ; Baby boom generation Influence ; Older people Political activity ; Conflict of generations Political aspects ; Political sociology ; Cohort analysis ; Cohort Studies ; Cohort analysis ; Conflict of generations ; Political aspects ; Older people ; Political activity ; Political sociology ; Politics and government ; United States Politics and government ; United States
    Abstract: The birth of the boom -- Boomer ballast in American politics -- Demographic trends in politics -- Dreaming of a boomer Christmas -- Where does identity come from? -- The emergence of cohort consciousness -- The issues : zero sum competition -- Technology and alienation.
    Abstract: "By the 2030 census, the percentage of adults over 60 years old is projected to be 33 percent. Because older people are more likely to vote, it's likely more than 40 percent of voters over 60 years old. And consider the major party nominees for president since 1999. Only Barack Obama (1961) and John McCain (1936) were born outside of a six-year range from 1943 to 1948. 'Age identification,' according to political scientists, "is a potent force in the organization of citizens and the mobilization of political activity." In The Silver Vote , Kevin Munger examines the confluence of trends that made the Baby Boomer generation the most powerful and consequential in American history, and the emergence of age-based political and cultural cleavages. He argues that "cohort consciousness" glues Boomer voters together, and their unique aspects will have outsize influence on our elections, media, and economy for years to come. Age cohorts lie at the intersection of class, partisanship, race, rural identity, and gender. The "Boomer" cohort is whiter, straighter, richer, more rural, and more Republican than younger cohorts. The implications of this intersection for the future of descriptive representation in Congress are clear, and significant. The "Boomer" story is a white story. The age pyramid looks radically different when divided by race, and only whites were able to fully take advantage of the broad-based economic growth and wealth accumulation in the postwar period. Older people have also experienced specific changes (some might call losses) that have been theorized to be politically relevant. 'Status threat' among rural whites has been shown to be a significant predictor of support for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Older voters are also less 'digitally literate,' and are thus worse at finding, vetting and sharing information. Today, the fastest growing population of Facebook users is adults over sixty-five years old. The evidence of a generational gap in vote choice is growing; beginning in 2008, Democrats have enjoyed a considerable advantage with young voters, and Republicans with older voters. Using new survey data, political experiments, and with historical cases, Munger explores how our electoral politics are at the mercy of the silver vote for the immediate future-and what, if anything, we can do about it"--
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    The Dalai Lama's special envoy : memoirs of a lifetime in pursuit of a reunited Tibet (2022)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231206488
    Language: English
    Pages: xl, 757 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gyari, Lodi Gyaltsen The Dalai Lama's special envoy
    DDC: 305.895410753092
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    Keywords: Gyari, Lodi G ; Gyari family ; Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho Friends and associates ; Exiles Biography ; Exiles Biography ; Tibetans Biography ; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Relations ; China Relations ; Xinlong Xian (China) Biography ; Autobiografie ; Tibeter ; China ; Tibet ; Diplomat
    Abstract: Part I. Land of My Ancestors -- History of Nyarong, Kham, My Birthplace -- The Gyari Family : Descendants of Nyarong Gönpo Namgyal -- My Spiritual Lineage: The Mindrolling Tradition and Lumorab Monastery -- The Gyaritsang's Involvement in the Tibetan Resistance -- Our Flight from Nyarong -- The Journey to Lhasa -- From Mindrolling to Exile in India -- Part II. Tibet Restored: Reuniting the Tibetan People -- A Unified Tibet: Centerpiece of the Tibetan Struggle -- Tibetan Exile Organizations: Too Often Compromised by Conflicting Agendas and Personality Disputes -- Repercussions from Divisions Within the Tibetan Community in Exile -- Tibetans Inside Tibet: Flag Bearers of a Unified Tibet -- Part III. Thirty Years of Engagement with the PRC: Tibetans Betrayed by Suspicion, -- Chinese Betrayed by Unrealistic Hope -- The Early Years: 1979-1984 -- Tibet's Rise to Prominence on the International Stage: Adoption of the Middle Way Approach -- Developing U.S. Support for Tibet -- India, Our Home Away from Home -- Assistance from Other Asian Countries, Europe, Nongovernmental Organizations, and Dharma Centers -- The 1990s: Renewal of Efforts to Engage Beijing -- Fits and Starts: Reengaging the United Front -- Formal Dialogue Begins -- Nine Rounds of Dialogue -- Status of Relationship, Obstacles to Reconnection, and Recommendations.
    Abstract: "Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari spent decades drawing attention to the plight of the Tibetan people and striving for resolution of the Tibetan-Chinese conflict. He was the Dalai Lama's special envoy and chief negotiator with the People's Republic of China in the formal negotiations over the status of Tibet. In this revealing memoir, Gyari chronicles his lifetime of service to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan cause. Gyari recounts his work conducting formal dialogue with the Chinese leadership from 2002 to 2012, as well as his efforts during the many years of quiet diplomacy preceding these historic negotiations. He details the fits and starts of the parties' relationship, addressing successes as well as failures and highlighting misperceptions, missteps, and missed opportunities by both sides. Gyari grounds his recollections of his time as special envoy in his life experience, providing a powerful account of the personal side of Tibet's struggles. He describes the Tibetan resistance to the Chinese invasion and the tumultuous early years of the Tibetan community in exile as well as his family's history and spiritual lineage. A reincarnated Tibetan Buddhist lama forced to flee Tibet during the Chinese invasion, Gyari illuminates how his political efforts fulfilled his spiritual calling. Informed by his unparalleled experiences, Gyari offers realizable-but provocative-recommendations for restarting the Tibetan-Chinese dialogue to achieve a mutually beneficial resolution of the issue. For all readers interested in Tibet's complex modern history, this book offers an incomparable look inside the decades-long effort to achieve the Dalai Lama's vision of a reunited Tibet"--
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    The art of useless : fashion, media, and consumer culture in contemporary China (2021)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231192491 , 9780231192484
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 267 Seiten
    Series Statement: Global Chinese culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hui, Calvin Art of useless
    DDC: 306.30951
    Keywords: Konsumentenverhalten ; Mode ; Kultursektor ; China ; Consumption (Economics) ; Fashion Social aspects ; Middle class ; Consumption (Economics) in motion pictures ; Fashion in motion pictures ; Middle class in motion pictures ; Documentary films History and criticism ; China Economic conditions 1976-2000 ; China Economic conditions 2000- ; China ; Mittelstand ; Kleidung ; Verbraucherinteresse ; Verbraucherverhalten ; Mode ; Modebranche ; Medien ; Film
    Abstract: "Since embarking on economic reforms in 1978, the People's Republic of China has also undergone a sweeping cultural reorganization, from proletarian culture under Mao to middle-class consumer culture today. Under these circumstances, how has a Chinese middle class come into being, and how has consumerism become the dominant ideology of an avowedly socialist country? The Art of Useless offers an innovative way to understand China's unprecedented political-economic, social, and cultural transformations, showing how consumer culture helps anticipate, produce, and shape a new middle-class subjectivity. Examining changing representations of the production and consumption of fashion in documentaries and films, Calvin Hui traces how culture contributes to China's changing social relations through the cultivation of new identities and sensibilities. He explores the commodity chain of fashion on a transnational scale, from production to consumption to disposal, as well as media portrayals of the intersections of clothing with class, gender, and ethnicity. Hui illuminates key cinematic narratives, such as a factory worker's desire for a high-quality suit in the 1960s, an intellectual's longing for fashionable clothes in the 1980s, and a white-collar woman's craving for brand-name commodities in the 2000s. He considers how documentary films depict the undersides of consumption-exploited laborers who fantasize about the products they manufacture as well as the accumulation of waste and its disposal-revealing how global capitalism renders migrant factory workers, scavengers, and garbage invisible."
    Abstract: Introduction: The trouble with naming : the middle-class culture, petty-bourgeois sensibility, and Zhuang (裝) -- Dirty fashion : Ma Ke's fashion "useless" (2007), Jia Zhangke's documentary film Useless (2007), and cognitive mapping -- High-quality suit, class struggle, and cultural revolution : the politics of consumption in Xie Tieli's film Never forget (1964) -- "Mao's children are wearing fashion!" : romantic love, fashion consumption, and modernization politics in Huang Zumo's film Romance on Lu Mountain (1980) -- Imag(in)ing the Chinese middle-class culture : white-collar work, romantic love, and fashion consumption -- Between production and consumption : the Chinese migrant factory workers in documentary films and ethnographic works -- The psychic life of rubbish : on Wang Jiuliang's documentary film Beijing besieged by waste (2010).
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    The way out : how to overcome toxic polarization (2021)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231197403
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 280 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.69
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    Keywords: Conflict management / United States ; Polarization (Social sciences) / United States ; Political participation / United States ; Interpersonal relations / United States ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General ; Conflict management ; Interpersonal relations ; Polarization (Social sciences) ; Political participation ; United States
    Abstract: "The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarization is personal too-and it is making us miserable. Surveys show that Americans have become more fearful and hateful of supporters of the opposing political party and imagine that they hold much more extreme views than they actually do. We have cordoned ourselves off: we prefer to date and marry those with similar opinions and are less willing to spend time with people on the other side. How can we loosen the grip of this toxic polarization and start working on our most pressing problems? The Way Out offers an escape from this morass. The social psychologist Peter T. Coleman explores how conflict resolution and complexity science provide guidance for dealing with seemingly intractable political differences. Deploying the concept of attractors in dynamical systems, he explains why we are stuck in this rut as well as the unexpected ways that deeply rooted oppositions can and do change. Coleman meticulously details principles and practices for navigating and healing the difficult divides in our homes, workplaces, and communities, blending compelling personal accounts from his years of working on entrenched conflicts with lessons from leading-edge research. The Way Out is a vital and timely guide to breaking free from the cycle of mutual contempt in order to better our lives, relationships, and country"--
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    Dwelling in the world : family, house, and home in Tianjin, China, 1860-1960 (2021)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231181792 , 9780231181785
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 364 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Studies of the weatherhead East Asian institute
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als LaCouture, Elizabeth Dwelling in the world
    DDC: 306.850951/154
    Keywords: Families History 19th century ; Families History 20th century ; Households History 19th century ; Households History 20th century ; Social classes History 19th century ; Social classes History 20th century ; Tianjin (China) Social life and customs ; China ; Familie ; Haus ; Soziales Lebensgefühl ; Soziale Klasse ; Tientsin ; Geschichte 1860-1960
    Abstract: "Dwelling in the World writes the history of the modern home into the history of modern China, arguing that during the first half of the 20th century, Chinese urban elites invented the modern home by drawing on a variety of global and local discourses, practices, and styles. This book re-frames modern Chinese social and cultural history, typically described in terms of national awakening, in a global context, while also challenging Euro-American historical notions that the modern private sphere was a natural development of industrialization. The author argues that home became a contact zone of foreign and domestic in which Chinese people developed new forms of social distinction, creating a new urban cosmopolitan class. Dwelling in the World focuses on a single city: the northern city Tianjin, a former Qing regional administrative city that became a treaty-port in 1860 and eventually home to nine foreign-controlled municipal districts or concessions. Tianjin's multiple foreign empires deconstructed and altered the urban landscape, unraveling Qing imperial authority in the built environment and re-orienting Chinese people and trade to a new global stage of multiple empires. After the Qing collapsed in 1911, Tianjin no longer had a single political center, and the Chinese household, once the cornerstone of the imperial order, became a contested material and social space. These changes allowed Chinese people to shape everyday life for themselves. After World War II Tianjin became a wholly Chinese city again, the Guomindang municipal government finally proposed a plan for public housing, and later, the post-1949 Communist government made housing a top priority. But as housing became a citizen's right guaranteed by Communism, Chinese people no longer had the space to define home for themselves. By opening the door to modern Chinese housing, the Communists had closed the door on the cosmopolitan home"--
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    We testify with our lives : how religion transformed radical thought from black power to Black Lives Matter (2021)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231200448 , 0231200447 , 9780231200455 , 0231200455
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 303 Seiten , 23 cm
    Parallel Title: Online version Johnson, Terrence L. We testify with our lives
    DDC: 323.1196/073
    Keywords: Black power / United States ; African American radicals ; African American intellectuals ; African Americans / Intellectual life ; Radicalism / United States / Religious aspects / Christianity ; Civil rights / Religious aspects ; Civil rights movements / United States ; African Americans / Politics and government ; African American intellectuals ; African American radicals ; African Americans / Intellectual life ; African Americans / Politics and government ; Black power ; Civil rights movements ; Civil rights / Religious aspects ; Radicalism / Religious aspects / Christianity ; United States ; HISTORY / United States / General
    Abstract: "Police killings of unarmed Black people have ignited a national and international response unlike any in decades. But differing from their civil rights-oriented predecessors, today's activists do not think that the institutions and values of liberal democracy can eradicate structural racism. They draw instead on a Black radical tradition that, Terrence L. Johnson argues, derives its force from its unacknowledged ethical and religious dimensions. We Testify with Our Lives traces Black religion's sustained influence from SNCC to the present, reconstructing a radical lived ethics of freedom and justice. Johnson demonstrates that Black Power fundamentally contests liberalism's abstract understanding of democracy, calling instead for new embodied frameworks to achieve human flourishing and dignity. Black bodies represent the primary form of resistance against violent and oppressive regimes of white supremacy and exploitation, and the individual and collective struggles of Black life bear witness to the dogged determination to cultivate beauty, rage, and joy. Considering the writings of Audre Lorde, Toni Cade Bambara, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin, We Testify with Our Lives makes its case through a new narrative of the evolution of Black radicalism from the civil rights movement through the Movement for Black Lives. It forges new insights into Black Power's vital contributions to debates on ethics, transnational politics, democracy, political solidarity, and freedom-and its potent resources for the ongoing struggle to build democratic possibilities for all"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Politics of healing -- Awakening to black power consciousness -- Martin Luther King Jr.'s religious radicalism -- Malcolm X and the spirit of humanistic activism -- Humanistic nationalism and the ethical turn -- SNCC's Palestinian problem -- The religion of black power
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    Internationalist aesthetics : China and early Soviet culture (2021)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tyerman, Edward Internationalist aesthetics
    DDC: 303.48/24705109042
    Keywords: Communism and culture History ; Communist aesthetics ; Mass media and culture History ; Communism and culture ; Communist aesthetics ; Diplomatic relations ; Mass media ; Mass media and culture ; Public opinion, Chinese ; History ; Soviet Union Foreign relations ; China Foreign relations ; China In mass media ; China Foreign public opinion, Soviet Union ; Soviet Union Foreign public opinion, Chinese ; China ; Soviet Union
    Abstract: Introduction: China and early Soviet culture -- Sight, sound, and similarity: Soviet writers travel to China -- Translating China onstage: Roar, China! and The red poppy -- Through an internationalist lens: China in early Soviet cinema -- Confessions and collaborations: authority, agency, agency and factographic internationalism in Den Shi-khua -- Epilogue: International literature, national form, and missed connections.
    Abstract: "While the Third Communist International (Comintern) supported nationalist revolution in China, Soviet writers and film-makers traveled to China, met with Chinese students in Moscow, and sought to reimagine China for a Soviet audience as the next site of world revolution. Their artistic experiments constituted a search for an "internationalist aesthetics": a mode of representation that could overcome the exoticism of imperialist culture and produce transnational sympathies between populations previously considered culturally distant. Contributing to a recent cultural turn in the study of socialist internationalism, Internationalist Aesthetics positions China in the 1920s as the central space for Soviet culture's attempt to imagine how internationalism was supposed to look and feel. Tyerman traces the reimagining of China through the multiple genres and media of the early Soviet cultural system, including reportage, film, theater, and biography. This account offers new insight into the transnational dynamics that shaped Soviet culture and socialist aesthetics, and illuminates a crucial chapter in Sino-Russian relations, one of the most significant international relationships of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"--
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    World as family : a journey of multi-rooted belongings (2021)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231551588 , 0231551584
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 284 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Desai, Vishakha N World as family
    DDC: 305.89/1411073
    Keywords: Desai, Vishakha N ; East Indian American women Biography ; Women, East Indian Biography ; Women immigrants Biography ; Intellectuals Biography ; Women college teachers Biography ; Globalization Social aspects ; Belonging (Social psychology) ; Communities ; Belonging (Social psychology) ; Communities ; East Indian American women ; Globalization ; Social aspects ; Intellectuals ; Women college teachers ; Women, East Indian ; Women immigrants ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators ; Biographies ; United States
    Abstract: Too bad, another girl! -- Home : beams, dreams and food -- Dancing with gods -- Who is Kwame Nkrumah? -- Strangers become "family" -- Vietnam : war or country? -- The trauma of return -- Attachments, made/unmade -- Art connections -- Between being and becoming -- Expanding identities -- Death and life in the diasporic family -- Perceptions and problematics of belonging -- Building communities across borders -- Remaking "home" in the world -- Creating the culture of "us" -- Epilogue: Becoming "family" in a world of pandemics
    Abstract: "Vishakha N. Desai uses her life experiences to explore the significance of living globally and its urgency for our current moment. She weaves her narrative arc from growing up in a Gandhian household in Ahmedabad to arriving in the United States as a seventeen-year-old exchange student and her subsequent career as a dancer, curator, institutional leader, and teacher against the broad sweep of political and social changes in the two countries she calls home. Through her personal story, Desai reframes the idea of what it means to be global, considering how to lead a life of multiple belongings without losing local and national affinities. Vividly conjuring the complexities and exhilaration of a life that is rooted in many places, World as Family is a vital book for everyone who aspires to connect across borders-real and perceived-and bring to fruition the ideal of a global family"--
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/desa19598
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    At war with government : how conservatives weaponized distrust from Goldwater to Trump (2021)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231551243
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fried, Amy At war with government
    DDC: 306.20973
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    Keywords: Political culture ; Conservatives ; Political alienation ; Conservatives ; Political alienation ; Political culture ; Politics and government ; United States Politics and government ; United States
    Abstract: Weaponizing distrust -- Trust and distrust in American political development -- Here to help? Movement conservatism and the state in the Reagan era -- A revolution against government? The promotion of distrust in the Clinton era -- "We're all mad here": The Tea Party and the Obama era -- "Punch government in the face": anger in the Trump Era -- Making peace with government.
    Abstract: "Polling shows that since the 1950s Americans' trust in government has fallen dramatically to historically low levels. In At War with Government , the political scientists Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris reveal that this trend is no accident. Although distrust of authority is deeply rooted in American culture, it is fueled by conservative elites who benefit from it. Since the postwar era conservative leaders have deliberately and strategically undermined faith in the political system for partisan aims. Fried and Harris detail how conservatives have sown distrust to build organizations, win elections, shift power toward institutions that they control, and secure policy victories. They trace this strategy from the Nixon and Reagan years through Gingrich's Contract with America, the Tea Party, and Donald Trump's rise and presidency. Conservatives have promoted a political identity opposed to domestic state action, used racial messages to undermine unity, and cultivated cynicism to build and bolster coalitions. Once in power, they have defunded public services unless they help their constituencies and rolled back regulations, perversely proving the failure of government. Fried and Harris draw on archival sources to document how conservative elites have strategized behind the scenes. With a powerful diagnosis of our polarized era, At War with Government also proposes how we might rebuild trust in government by countering the strategies conservatives have used to weaken it"--
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.7312/frie19520
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    The people's choice : how the voter makes up his mind in a presidential campaign (2021)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231197953
    Language: English
    Pages: xlii, 178 Seiten
    Edition: Legacy edition
    DDC: 324.973
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Voting / United States ; Presidents / United States / Election ; Political parties / United States ; Political parties ; Presidents / Election ; Voting ; United States
    Abstract: "The People's Choice is a landmark psychological and statistical study of American voters during the 1940 and 1944 presidential elections, originally published in 1948. Amid a burgeoning interest in statistics and population sampling, it constituted the first systematic effort to trace voters' behavior across the duration of a presidential campaign and to follow up on this data years later. During the 1940 campaign, Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson, and Hazel Gaudet followed a sample population of six hundred people from Erie County, Ohio, interviewing them monthly in the seven months leading up to Election Day. Their subsequent study in 1944 expanded the sample to include a nationwide cross-section of two thousand voters. Contrary to the fears of the time, Lazarsfeld, Berelson, and Gaudet found that media such as newspapers and radio and campaign advertising did not have a profound influence on individual voting habits. Instead, interpersonal interactions and word of mouth were more significant for most voters. They argued that mass media reached a small but crucial subset of people, who passed information on to less avid media consumers. The study paired the same interviewers and interviewees over time, leading to remarkable extended conversations featuring more casual and exploratory discussions than were typical of social-scientific research. Quoted verbatim, they offer additional insight into the American electorate. A groundbreaking work of empirical political science, The People's Choice remains of great importance in an era of anxiety about the influence of media on voting behavior"--
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    Human relations commissions : relieving racial tensions in the American city (2020)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 0231549199 , 9780231549196
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Calfano, Brian Robert, 1977- Human relations commissions
    DDC: 306.0973
    Keywords: Civil rights ; Discrimination Law and legislation ; Racism ; Social problems ; Racism ; Social problems ; Discrimination ; Law and legislation ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration ; Civil rights ; United States
    Abstract: "During the 1950s, amid increased attention to the problems facing cities-such as racial disparities in housing, education, and economic conditions; tense community-police relations; and underrepresentation of minority groups-local governments developed an interest in "human relations." In the wake of the shocking 1965 Watts uprising, a new authority was created: the Los Angeles City Human Relations Commission. Today, such commissions exist all over the United States, charged with addressing such tasks as fighting racial discrimination and improving fair housing access. Brian Calfano and Valerie Martinez-Ebers examine the history and current efforts of human relations commissions in promoting positive intergroup outcomes and enforcing antidiscrimination laws. Drawing on a wide range of theories and methods from political science, social psychology, and public administration, they assess policy approaches, successes, and failures in four cities. The book sheds light on the advantages and disadvantages of different commission types and considers the stresses and expectations placed on commission staff in carrying out difficult agendas in highly charged political contexts. Calfano and Martinez-Ebers suggest that the path to full inclusion is fraught with complications but that human rights commissions provide guidance as to how disparate groups can be brought together to forge a common purpose. The first book to examine these widely occurring yet understudied political bodies, Human Relations Commissions is relevant to a range of urban policy issues of interest to both academics and practitioners"--
    Abstract: Introduction : too big a task? -- Human relations commissions : creativity in constraint -- The history of intergroup relations in America -- Origins and development of organized human relations efforts -- The humans who must relate -- Experimenting with the dynamics of intergroup identity -- Reporting and responding to community -- Imagining human relations for the future.
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    To the end of revolution : the Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949-1959 (2020)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231195263 , 9780231195270
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 401 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Liu, Xiaoyuan To the End of Revolution
    DDC: 951/.5055
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    Keywords: Communism ; China Relations ; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Relations ; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Politics and government 1951- ; China ; Tibet Aufstand ; Minderheitenpolitik
    Abstract: "The status of Tibet is one of the most controversial and complex issues in the history of modern China. In this book, Xiaoyuan Liu draws on the archives of the Chinese Communist Party to offer a groundbreaking account of Beijing's evolving Tibet policy during the critical first decade of the People's Republic. Liu details Beijing's overarching strategy toward Tibet, the last frontier for the Communist revolution to reach. He analyzes how China's new leaders drew on Qing and Nationalist legacies as they attempted to resolve a problem inherited from their predecessors. Despite acknowledging that religion, ethnicity, and geography made Tibet distinct, Beijing nevertheless forged ahead, zealously implementing socialist revolution while vigilantly guarding against real and perceived enemies. Seeking to wait out local opposition before choosing to ruthlessly crush Tibetan resistance in the late 1950s, Beijing eventually incorporated Tibet into its sociopolitical system. The international and domestic ramifications, however, are felt to this day. Liu also offers new insight into the Chinese Communist Party's relations with the Dalai Lama, ethnic revolts across the vast Tibetan plateau, and the suppression of the Lhasa Rebellion in 1959. He places Beijing's approach to Tibet in the contexts of the Communist Party's treatment of ethnic minorities and China's broader domestic and foreign policies in the early Cold War"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- A Protracted Agenda -- The "Dalai Line" -- A Time to Change -- A New Phase -- A Waiting Game -- The Showdown -- Epilogue: Tibet and the World, According to Beijing
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    Ethnic conflict and protest in Tibet and Xinjiang : unrest in China's West (2020)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231169998
    Language: English
    Pages: VI, 268 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: Paperback edition
    Series Statement: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    DDC: 305.8009515
    Keywords: Ethnic conflict China ; Tibet Autonomous Region ; Ethnic conflict China ; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu ; Borderlands China ; Ethnic conflict China ; Borderlands ; Ethnic conflict ; Ethnic relations ; Volksrepublik China Tibet ; Xinjiang Uygur ; Ethnische Bevölkerungsgruppe/Volksgruppe ; Interethnische Beziehungen ; Ethnischer Konflikt ; Ethnopolitik ; Politische Unruhen ; Menschenrechte ; Bildungswesen ; Umweltgefährdungen ; People's Republic of China Ethnic/national communities ; Interethnic relations ; Ethnic conflicts ; Racial policy ; Political unrest ; Human rights ; Educational systems ; Environmental hazards ; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Ethnic relations ; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) Ethnic relations ; China Ethnic relations ; China ; China ; Tibet Autonomous Region ; China ; Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Tibet ; Sinkiang ; Zhong guo gong chan dang ; Minderheitenfrage
    Abstract: 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.Essential reading for anyone struggling to understand the origins of unrest in contemporary Tibet and Xinjiang, this volume considers the role of propaganda and education as generators and sources of conflict. It links interethnic strife to economic growth and connects environmental degradation to increased instability. It captures the subtle difference between violence in urban Xinjiang and conflict in rural Tibet, with detailed portraits of everyday individuals caught among the pressures of politics, history, personal interest, and global movements with local resonance.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction: Understanding the current wave of conflict and protest in Tibet and Xinjiang , Unrest in Tibet and the limits of regional autonomy , Propaganda in the public square : communicating state directives on religion and ethnicity to Uyghurs and Tibetans in western China , Discussing rights and human rights in Tibet , The Chinese education system as a source of conflict in Tibetan areas , Lucrative chaos : inter-ethnic conflict as a function of the economic "normalization" of southern Xinjiang , Environmental issues and conflict in Tibet , Fringe existence : Uyghur entrepreneurs and ethnic relations in urban Xinjiang , Prosperity, identity, intra-Tibetan violence, and harmony in southeast Tibet : the case of Gyalthang , Interethnic conflict in the PRC : Xinjiang and Tibet as exceptions?
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    Just like us : the American struggle to understand foreigners (2020)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231193528
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 258 Seiten , 24 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.800973
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    MG 70010
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Inklusion ; Fremdheit ; Ausländer ; Nationalbewusstsein ; USA ; National characteristics, American / History ; Cultural awareness / United States ; Race awareness / United States / History ; United States / Race relations / History ; Cultural pluralism / United States / History ; Globalization / Social aspects / United States / History ; Exceptionalism / United States / History ; Americanization ; Cold War / Social aspects / United States ; Americanization ; Cultural awareness ; Cultural pluralism ; Exceptionalism ; Globalization / Social aspects ; National characteristics, American ; Race awareness ; Race relations ; Social aspects ; United States ; History ; USA ; Ausländer ; Fremdheit ; Inklusion ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "Americans have long considered themselves a people set apart. Yet American exceptionalism is built on a set of tacit beliefs about other cultures. From the founding exclusion of indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans to the uneasy welcome of waves of immigrants, from republican disavowals of colonialism to Cold War proclamations of freedom, Americans' ideas of their differences from others have shaped the modern world--and how Americans have viewed foreigners is deeply revealing of their assumptions about themselves. Just Like Us is a pathbreaking exploration of what foreignness has meant across American history. Thomas Borstelmann traces American ambivalence about non-Americans, identifying a paradoxical perception of foreigners as suspiciously different yet fundamentally sharing American values at heart beneath the layers of culture. Considering race and religion, notions of the American way of life, attitudes toward immigrants, competition with communism, Americans abroad, and the subversive power of American culture, he offers a surprisingly optimistic account of the acceptance of difference. Borstelmann contends that increasing contact with peoples around the globe during the Cold War encouraged mainstream society to grow steadily more inclusive in terms of who could be considered fully American. In a time of resurgent nativism and xenophobia, Just Like Us provides a reflective, urgent examination of how Americans have conceived of foreignness and their own exceptionalism throughout the nation's history"--
    Description / Table of Contents: The Challenge of Contact with Foreigners -- Freedom: American Culture as Human Nature -- Inbound: Immigrants from Internal Threat to Incorporation -- Lurking: Communists and the Threat of Captivity -- Outbound: U.S. Expansion Into Foreign Lands -- Subversion: The Power of American Culture in a Global Era -- Conclusion: Not So Foreign After All
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Stating the sacred : religion, china, and the formation of the nation-state (2020)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231550390
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxvii, 237 Seiten)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 322/.10951
    RVK:
    BE 2250
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1790- ; HISTORY / Asia / China ; Citizenship ; Civil religion ; Nation-state ; National characteristics, Chinese ; Territorium ; Nation ; Nationalstaat ; Das Heilige ; Zivilreligion ; Staatsbürger ; China ; China ; Zivilreligion ; Das Heilige ; Nation ; Nationalstaat ; Staatsbürger ; Territorium ; Geschichte 1790-
    Abstract: China’s constitution explicitly refers to its sovereign domain as "sacred territory." Why does an avowedly secular state make such a claim, and what does this suggest about the relations between religion and the nation-state? Focusing primarily on China, Stating the Sacred offers a novel approach to nation-state formation, arguing that its most critical element is how the state sacralizes the nation.Michael J. Walsh explores the religious and political dimensions of Chinese state ideology, making the case that the sacred is a constitutive part of modern China. He examines the structural connection among texts (constitutions, legal codes, national histories), ostensibly universal and normative categories (race, religion, citizenship, freedom, human rights), and territoriality (the integrity of sovereignty and control over resources and people), showing how they are bound together by the sacred. Considering a variety of what he refers to as theopolitical techniques, Walsh argues that nation-states undertake sacralization in order to legitimate the violence of establishing and expanding their sovereignty. Ultimately, territorialization is a form of sacralization, and the foundational role of the sacred makes all nation-states religious states. Stating the Sacred offers new ways of understanding China’s approach to legality, control of the populace, religious freedom, human rights, and the structuring of international relations, and it raises existential questions about the fundamental nature of the nation-state
    DOI: 10.7312/wals19356
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    The Oath Keepers : patriotism and the edge of violence in a right-wing antigovernment group (2020)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 0231550316 , 9780231550314
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (230 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jackson, Sam (Professor of social sciences) The Oath Keepers
    DDC: 303.48/4
    Keywords: Oath Keepers (Organization) ; Right-wing extremists ; Militia movements ; Radicalism ; Radicalism ; Right-wing extremists ; Militia movements ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism ; United States
    Abstract: "In the past decade, America has seen the wild growth of the militia movement. after remaining stable during George W. Bush's presidency, the number of patriot/militia groups climbed from 149 in 2008 to 512 in 2009 before peaking at 1,360 in 2012. During this time, its supporters have engaged in protests, interfered with government action (with the Bundy Ranch standoff and the Malheur Refuge occupation), plotted acts of terrorism (for example, with a Kansas plot to bomb an apartment complex home to many Somali refugees), and carried out violence against law enforcement and civilians. Among the most visible and vocal of these organizations is the Oath Keepers. Formed in 2009, the Oath Keepers quickly became perhaps the most prominent group in the American anti-government patriot/militia movement, gaining notoriety for their involvement in the Bundy Ranch standoff of 2014 and the Malheur Refuge occupation of 2016. Along with the rest of the patriot/militia movement, the Oath Keepers has grown dramatically since 2009, and today the group claims some 30,000 members. They give voice to a recurrent form of American politics: anger and distrust of the government combined with a valorization of violence. Despite growing media coverage, the Oath Keepers and groups like it have received very little attention from researchers. Through a case study of the Oath Keepers and a textual analysis of the group's publications (an archive of over one million words), Jackson explores how the group uses core American political values and American history to interpret the political context it finds itself in, to provide examples for appropriate forms of political behavior given that context, and to gain support from more Americans"--
    Abstract: Introduction -- Understanding Right-Wing Extremism in the United States -- Introducing Oath Keepers -- An Operational History of Oath Keepers -- The Ongoing Struggle Over Natural Rights -- The American Revolution Redux -- "No More Free Wacos" -- Conclusion: The Importance of Oath Keepers.
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    Stating the sacred : religion, China, and the formation of the nation-state (2020)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231193566 , 9780231193573
    Language: English
    Pages: xxvii, 237 Seiten , 22 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 322/.10951
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1790- ; Nation ; Das Heilige ; Territorium ; Nationalstaat ; Zivilreligion ; Staatsbürger ; China ; Civil religion / China ; Religion and state / China ; Citizenship / China ; National characteristics, Chinese ; Nation-state ; Citizenship ; Civil religion ; Nation-state ; National characteristics, Chinese ; China ; China ; Zivilreligion ; Das Heilige ; Nation ; Nationalstaat ; Staatsbürger ; Territorium ; Geschichte 1790-
    Abstract: "The nation-state is for the most part the product of a European mentalité. What happens when it is exported, along with colonialism, to other parts of the world? What happens in China when it encounters--either through force or by willing appropriation--European categories of nation and state, along with their attendant formulations concerning science, rationality, politics, and economics, and their accompanying categories such as religion, the secular, the sacred, human rights, and freedom? How does an imperium become a nation? The central tenet of this book is that nation-states are the results of mythos and sanctified violence. Using government texts including China's constitution (which describes its sovereign domain as "sacred territory") and focusing on citizenship, religion, and territory, Walsh argues that the state sacralizes the nation and that it is this notion of the sacred, the inviolate, that frames and sustains nation-state building. It is used to justify territorial integrity and state sovereignty; with its deep religious underpinnings it shapes citizens of the state and makes them members of the nation. Sacrality, therefore, is a constitutive part of modern China, manifested in its constitution and how it engages the world"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Territory -- Constitution -- Religion -- Reincarnation -- Contact -- Nativity
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    Voices from the Chinese century : public intellectual debate from contemporary China (2020)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231195232 , 0231195230 , 9780231195225
    Language: English
    Pages: vi, 388 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 951.06/1
    RVK:
    LB 49440
    Keywords: Geistesgeschichte 21. Jh. ; Politik ; Regierung ; Intellektueller ; China ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Quelle ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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