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Pianos and Politics in China
In China, a nation where the worlds of politics and art are closely linked, Western classical music was considered during the cultural revolution to be an imperialist intrusion, in direct conflict with the native aesthetic. In this revealing chronicle of the relationship between music and politics in twentieth-century China, Richard Kraus examines the evolution of China's ever-changing disposition towards European music and demonstrates the steady westernization of Chinese music. Placing China's cultural conflicts in global perspective, he traces the lives of four Chinese musicians and reflects on how their experiences are indicative of China's place at the furthest edge of an expanding Western international order.
Shanghai Tai Chi
Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily urban life under socialism in a rich social and political history of one of the world's most complex cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of society - from capitalists and bourgeois intellectuals to women and youth. Utilizing the metaphor of Tai Chi, he reveals how people in Shanghai experienced and adapted to a new Maoist political culture from 1949. Exploring the multifaceted complexity of everyday life and material culture in Mao's China, Lu addresses the survival of old bourgeois lifestyles under the new proletarian dictatorship, the achievements of intellectuals in an age of anti-intellectualism, the pleasure that urban youth derived from reading taboo literature, the emergence of women's liberation and the politics of greening and horticulture. This captivating, epitomizing, and vivid history transports readers to history as lived on Shanghai's streets and back alleyways.
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Webster's New World 575+ Italian Verbs
Whether you're a businessperson who wants to talk the talk, a future tourist, or a student trying to master Italian, Webster's New World 575+ Italian Verbs is the only verb reference you need. This practical resource lists verbs alphabetically and includes examples demonstrating the meaning and function of the verbs to ensure that you know how to use them correctly! Webster's New World 575+ Italian Verbs is compact yet comprehensive. It's packed with 575 "everyday" verbs, additional verbs to expand your vocabulary, and numerous helpful features: 575 verbs listed alphabetically by their infinitive and fully conjugated in easy-to-read charts Sample Italian sentences demonstrating the proper usage of each verb, translated into English A Verb Usage Review that covers the Italian verb system, its regular and irregular conjugations, and the usages of the seven Italian moods and their simple and compound tenses Four appendices with 1,500 cross-referenced Italian verbs, an irregular verbs index, a verb-preposition list, and an English-Italian verbs index
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