1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454833103321

Autore

Shih Shu-mei <1961->

Titolo

The Lure of the Modern [[electronic resource] ] : Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001

ISBN

0-520-93528-4

1-59734-725-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (443 p.)

Disciplina

895.1/09112

Soggetti

Chinese literature

Chinese literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism

Modernism (Literature)

Modernism (Literature) - China

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; 1 Time, Modernism, and Cultural Power; 2 Evolutionism and Experimentalism; 3 Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism; 4 The Libidinal and the National; 5 Loving the Other; 6 Modernity without Rupture; 7 Writing English with a Chinese Brush; 8 Gendered Negotiations with the Local; 9 Modernism and Urban Shanghai; 10 Gender, Race, and Semicolonialism; 11 Performing Semicolonial Subjectivity; 12 Capitalism and Interiority; Conclusion; Appendix; Selected Bibliography; Author/Title Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Shu-mei Shih's study is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive account of Chinese literary modernism from Republican China. In The Lure of the Modern, Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and political formation of the time.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910715082703321

Titolo

Performance and accountability report

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : Surface Transportation Board

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (volumes)

Disciplina

???

Soggetti

Railroad law - United States

Transportation - United States

Railroad law

Transportation

Periodical

periodicals.

Periodicals.

Périodiques.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779662803321

Autore

Lane Jan-Erik

Titolo

Democracy [[electronic resource] ] : a comparative approach / / Jan-Erik Lane and Svante Ersson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

0-203-37876-8

1-299-48426-3

1-135-13642-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ErssonSvante O

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Democracy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-302) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Methodology -- pt. II. Exogeneity -- pt. III. Endogeneity -- pt. IV. Outcomes of democracy -- pt. V. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

What is democracy? Under what conditions does it thrive? What are the consequences of democracy?This book aims to answer these questions and more by exploring different varieties of democracies around the world. It starts with definitions of democracy and then divides the concept into three dimensions, which provide a framework for the study of democracy in all its forms. These dimensions form the three main sections of the book:*constitutional democracy which explores political rights*participatory democracy which focuses on participation of citizens*egalitarian democr