A passionate, thought-provoking, sometimes incendiary look at the role of propaganda in America today.Propaganda, manipulation, spin, control. It has ever been thus - or has it? On the eve of the 60th anniversary of George Orwell's classic essay on propaganda, "Politics and the English Language", a group of prominent writers have been invited to ...
The history of the student movement in China that led to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre is told through documents purportedly transcribed by the pseudonymous author Zhang Liang--a Communist party member with access. The documents are arranged chronologically to tell the story of the events, and they purportedly reveal the inner workings of the ...
On the night of June 3-4, 1989, Chinese troops violently crushed the largest pro-democracy demonstrations in the history of the communist regime. In this extraordinary collection of hundreds of internal government and Communist Party documents, secretly smuggled out of China, we learn how these events came to pass from behind the scenes. The ...
On June 4, 1989, the world watched in horror as government troops opened fire on thousands of democracy campaigners in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Children of the Dragon will be the first book to tell the Chinese side of the story in the words of the student and pro-democracy leaders themselves. Three 16-page photograph inserts. 50 black-and ...
The forces released by the Chinese dissident student movement have not been completely suppressed, despite the brutal crackdown that followed the Tiananmen Square massacre. In China a new generation is coming to power, taking over from the gerontacracy which has characterized the Chinese government for so long. Comprised of technocrats and ...
In this arresting chronicle of one tumultuous year in China's love-hate relationship with the West, Orville Schell brings us a revealing analysis of the Chinese reform movement.
A China expert writes about the Tibet that he has visited and studied and about the Tibet that has captured the imagination of Hollywood. He visits the set of the film SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET.
Through photographs, history, personal interviews, and stories, a group that investigates human rights abuses examines at the impact of Chinese political repression on Tibetan lives. Steve Marshall and Orville Schell contribute essays. 80 color and duotone photos.
Coal is still king in much of Appalachia, yet the heritage and history of the people who enabled the United States to become an economic superpower in the Industrial age are slipping away. This remarkable book presents arresting black and white photographs and powerful oral histories that chronicle the legacy of coalmining in southern West ...
Current Affairs/Asian StudiesPerhaps no nation in recent history has undergone as total a transformation as China has in the past twenty-five years. For Chinese leaders, the death of Mao Zedong, the rise of Deng Xiaoping, and unprecedented economic growth have spawned new complexities. For the countrys 1.3 billion citizens, changes have been ...
In 1984 Sebastiao Salgado began what would be a fifteen-month project of photographing the drought-stricken Sahel region of Africa in the countries of Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, and Sudan, where approximately one million people died from extreme malnutrition and related causes. Working with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, Salgado ...
Serendipity and innovative collaboration turned The ?Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan's best-selling novel into a pioneering opera which debuts in 2008 at the San Francisco Opera before touring the world. In their own words captured by Ken Smith Amy Tan and composer Stewart Wallace describe an incredible journey that took them to China where local ...
Following the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the People's Republic of China gradually permitted the renewal of religious activity. Tibetans, whose traditional religious and cultural institutions had been decimated during the preceding two decades, took advantage of the decisions of 1978 to begin a Buddhist renewal that is one of the most ...
America's foremost chronicler of contemporary China brilliantly illuminates the new power structure, economic initiatives, and cultural changes that have transformed China since the Tianamen Square massacre of 1989. "A rich portrait, capturing a fascinating and perhaps fateful moment in China's long, turbulent history".--Arnold R. Isaacs, San ...
Danny Ferrington produced instruments for many of the greatest guitarists of our time, including Ry Cooder, Elvis Costello, Richard Thomson and Eddie Van Halen. This book, shaped like a guitar, with a pictorial essay showing the construction of a Ferrington instrument and 150 digitally composed colour images of the guitars themselves, is not only ...
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Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping
