1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991004359137507536

Autore

O'Grady, John (Nino Culotta)

Titolo

Aussie english : an explanation of the Australian idiom / John O'Grady (Nino Culotta)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sidney : Ure Smith, 1966

Descrizione fisica

VII, 104 p. : ill. ; 20cm

Disciplina

427.941103

Soggetti

Australia Linguaggi Dizionari

Australia Cultura Popolare Dizionari

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Nino Culotta, pseudonimo di John O'Grady

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960040503321

Autore

Ye Weili

Titolo

Growing Up in the People's Republic : Conversations between Two Daughters of China's Revolution / / by W. Ye

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005

ISBN

9786611365455

9781281365453

1281365459

9781403982070

1403982074

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Oral History, , 2731-5681

Altri autori (Persone)

MaXiaodong

Disciplina

951.05/6

Soggetti

Asia - History

Clinical psychology

Historiography

History - Methodology

World history

Sex

China - History

Asian History



Clinical Psychology

Historiography and Method

World History, Global and Transnational History

Gender Studies

History of China

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. [157]-165) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Foreword; Explanation of Chinese Names; Chronology of Major Events in China: 1949-Present; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE "Even If You Cut It, It Will Not Come Apart"; TWO "Flowers of the Nation"; THREE From Paper Crown to Leather Belt; FOUR Up to the Mountains, Down to the Countryside; FIVE Worker-Peasant-Soldier Students; SIX The Reform Era; Afterword; Glossary; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In a conversational style and in chronological sequence, Ye Weili and Ma Xiaodong recount their earlier lives in China from the 1950s to the 1980s, a particularly eventful period that included the catastrophic Cultural Revolution. Using their own stories as two case studies, they examine the making of a significant yet barely understood generation in recent Chinese history. They also reflect upon the mixed legacy of the early decades of the People's Republic of China (PRC). In doing so, the book strives for a balance between critical scrutiny of a complex era and the sweeping rejection of that era that recent victim literature embraces. Ultimately Ye and Ma intend to reconnect themselves to a piece of land and a period of history that have given them a sense of who they are. Their stories contain intertwining layers of personal, generational, and historical experiences. Unlike other memoirs that were written soon after the events of the Cultural Revolution, Ye and Ma's narratives have been put together some twenty years later, allowing for more critical distance. The passage of time has allowed them to consider important issues that other accounts omit, such as the impact of gender during this period of radical change in Chinese women's lives.