1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910697827103321

Titolo

Private equity [[electronic resource] ] : recent growth in leveraged buyouts exposed risks that warrant continued attention : report to congressional requesters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2008]

Descrizione fisica

iv, 126 pages : digital, PDF file

Soggetti

Private equity - United States

Leveraged buyouts - Law and legislation - United States

Venture capital

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Nov. 18, 2008).

"September 2008."

"GAO-08-885."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787132803321

Autore

Schwarcz Vera <1947->

Titolo

Place and memory in the Singing Crane Garden / / Vera Schwarcz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

0-8122-9173-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Penn studies in landscape architecture

Disciplina

712/.6 0951156

Soggetti

ARCHITECTURE / Landscape

Ming He Yuan (Beijing, China) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: A Garden Made Of Language And Time -- 1. Singing Cranes And Manchu Princes -- 2. War Invades The Garden -- 3. Consciousness In The Dark Earth -- 4. Red Terror On The Site Of Ming He Yuan -- 5. Spaciousness Regained In The Museum -- Conclusion: The Past's Tiered Continuum -- Dramatis Personae -- Glossary Of Chinese Terms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Singing Crane Garden in northwest Beijing has a history dense with classical artistic vision, educational experimentation, political struggle, and tragic suffering. Built by the Manchu prince Mianyu in the mid-nineteenth century, the garden was intended to serve as a refuge from the clutter of daily life near the Forbidden City. In 1860, during the Anglo-French war in China, the garden was destroyed. One hundred years later, in the 1960's, the garden served as the "ox pens," where dissident university professors were imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution. Peaceful Western involvement began in 1986, when ground was broken for the Arthur Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology. Completed in 1993, the museum and the Jillian Sackler Sculpture Garden stand on the same grounds today. In Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden, Vera Schwarcz gives voice to this richly layered corner of China's cultural landscape. Drawing upon a range of sources from poetry to painting, Schwarcz retells the garden's complex history



in her own poetic and personal voice. In her exploration of cultural survival, trauma, memory, and place, she reveals how the garden becomes a vehicle for reflection about history and language. Encyclopedic in conception and artistic in execution, Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden is a powerful work that shows how memory and ruins can revive the spirit of individuals and cultures alike.