Material Contradictions in Mao's China 0295750847, 9780295750842

Visual and Material Cultures in Middle Period China 9004349375, 9789004349377

Eight studies examine key features of Chinese visual and material cultures, ranging from tombs and ceramics to Buddhist

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Utopia and Modernity in China: Contradictions in Transition 9780745341583, 9780745347394, 9781786808349, 0745341586

The contradictions of modernization run through the whole of modern Chinese history. The abundance of manufactured goods

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Social Change in Contemporary China and the Theory of Social Contradictions 9781844643769, 184464376X

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Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China 9780824841300

Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of materia

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Little Emperors and Material Girls: Sex and Youth in Modern China 9780755619412, 9781780769844

China is the world’s fastest-growing economic powerhouse; everybody knows this. But behind the headlines a once-in-a-gen

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The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China 9780231553896

Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. S

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Feminisms in development: Contradictions, contestations and challenges 9781350220089, 9781842778180

This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to repositio

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Imperialism and its Contradictions 9780415907972

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False Nationalism, False Internationalism: Class Contradictions in the Armed Struggle

Class analysis and critique of major revolutionary actions in the 20th century.

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In Material gedacht – Thinking through Material: Material im Prozess des architektonischen Entwerfens / Material in the Process of Architectural Design and Conception 9783955534653, 9783955534646

Material as a design parameter Theme of the book is the materiality of architecture in the design process. When does t

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