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  • Newborn Socialist Things

    Materiality in Maoist China

    by Laurence Coderre ...
    Contemporary China is seen as a place of widespread commodification and consumerism, while the preceeding Maoist Cultural Revolution is typically understood as a time when goods were scarce and the state criticized what little consumption was possible. Indeed, with the exception of the likeness and words of Mao Zedong, both the media and material culture of the Cultural Revolution are often ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • Everyday Life in Russia

    Past and Present

    by Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    A panoramic, interdisciplinary survey of Russian lives and "a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture" ( The Russian Review).In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized Russian daily life from pre-revolutionary times through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

    Edited by Kirk Denton ...
    The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Youth Politics in Putin's Russia

    Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs

    by Julie Hemment ...
    Series series New Anthropologies of Europe
    Julie Hemment provides a fresh perspective on the controversial nationalist youth projects that have proliferated in Russia in the Putin era, examining them from the point of view of their participants and offering provocative insights into their origins and significance. The pro-Kremlin organization Nashi ("Ours") and other state-run initiatives to mobilize Russian youth have been widely reviled ... Read more

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  • What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?

    Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire

    by Madina Tlostanova ...
    Series series On Decoloniality
    In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future—which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity—has lapsed from the post-Soviet imagination, Tlostanova shows how the possible way out of such a sense of futurelessness lies in the engagement with activist art. She ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Postmodernism and China

    by Wang Ning, Anthony D. King, Abidin Kusno, Ping-Hui Liao ...
    Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume’s diverse group of contributors ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • 'City of the Future'

    Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana

    by Mateusz Laszczkowski ...
    Series Book 14 - Integration and Conflict Studies
    Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city’s longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Envisioning Taiwan

    Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary

    by June Yip, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island—with its complex history of colonization—presents a particularly fascinating case of the struggle to define a “nation.” While the mainland Chinese government has been unequivocal in its resistance to Taiwanese independence, in Taiwan, government control has gradually passed from mainland ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Remembering Utopia

    The Culture of Everyday Life in Socialist Yugoslavia

    Edited by Breda Luthar, Maruša Pušnik ...
    Essays and photos that reveal and reflect on everyday life in socialist Yugoslavia, from tourism to television.Research about socialism and communism tends to focus on official aspects of power and dissent and on state politics, and presuppose a powerful state and a party with its official ideology on one side and repressed, manipulated, or collaborating citizens on the other side. This collection ... Read more

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  • Ayn Rand

    An Introduction

    by Eamonn Butler ...
    Few 20th century intellectuals have been as influential – and controversial – as the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand. Her thinking still has a profound impact, particularly on those who come to it through her novels, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead – with their core messages of individualism, self-worth, and the right to live without the impositions of others. Even though ignored or scorned ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Storytelling in Siberia

    The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World

    by Robin P Harris ...
    Series series Folklore Studies in Multicultural World
    Olonkho, the epic narrative and song tradition of Siberia’s Sakha people, declined to the brink of extinction during the Soviet era. In 2005, UNESCO’s Masterpiece Proclamation sparked a resurgence of interest in olonkho by recognizing its important role in humanity’s oral and intangible heritage.Drawing on her ten years of living in the Russian North, Robin P. Harris documents how the Sakha have ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Ayn Rand Explained

    From Tyranny to Tea Party

    by Ronald E. Merrill, Marsha Familaro Enright ...
    Series Book 10 - Ideas Explained
    Fifty-five years after Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand is more in the news than ever. Ayn Rand Explained is an accurate and riveting account of Rand’s life, work, and influence, with the emphasis on her ideas.The book covers Rand’s career, from youth in Soviet Russia to Hollywood screenwriter and then to ideological guru; her novels and other fiction writings; her work in ethics, epistemology, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD