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In this work, the author focuses on pington, a storytelling art using the Suzhou dialect, to explore the role of the cultural market in mediating between the state and artists in the PRC era.
Author : Qiliang He
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2012-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9004232435
In this work, the author focuses on pington, a storytelling art using the Suzhou dialect, to explore the role of the cultural market in mediating between the state and artists in the PRC era.
Author : Kay Lehman Schlozman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691203687
How American political participation is increasingly being shaped by citizens who wield more resources The Declaration of Independence proclaims equality as a foundational American value. However, Unequal and Unrepresented finds that political voice in America is not only unequal but also unrepresentative. Those who are well educated and affluent carry megaphones. The less privileged speak in a whisper. Relying on three decades of research and an enormous wealth of information about politically active individuals and organizations, Kay Schlozman, Henry Brady, and Sidney Verba offer a concise synthesis and update of their groundbreaking work on political participation. The authors consider the many ways that citizens in American democracy can influence public outcomes through political voice: by voting, getting involved in campaigns, communicating directly with public officials, participating online or offline, acting alone and in organizations, and investing their time and money. Socioeconomic imbalances characterize every form of political voice, but the advantage to the advantaged is especially pronounced when it comes to any form of political expression--for example, lobbying legislators or making campaign donations—that relies on money as an input. With those at the top of the ladder increasingly able to spend lavishly in politics, political action anchored in financial investment weighs ever more heavily in what public officials hear. Citing real-life examples and examining inequalities from multiple perspectives, Unequal and Unrepresented shows how disparities in political voice endanger American democracy today.
Author : Diarmid A. Finnegan
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822988399
For many in the nineteenth century, the spoken word had a vivacity and power that exceeded other modes of communication. This conviction helped to sustain a diverse and dynamic lecture culture that provided a crucial vehicle for shaping and contesting cultural norms and beliefs. As science increasingly became part of public culture and debate, its spokespersons recognized the need to harness the presumed power of public speech to recommend the moral relevance of scientific ideas and attitudes. With this wider context in mind, The Voice of Science explores the efforts of five celebrity British scientists—John Tyndall, Thomas Henry Huxley, Richard Proctor, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Henry Drummond—to articulate and embody a moral vision of the scientific life on American lecture platforms. These evangelists for science negotiated the fraught but intimate relationship between platform and newsprint culture and faced the demands of audiences searching for meaningful and memorable lecture performances. As Diarmid Finnegan reveals, all five attracted unrivaled attention, provoking responses in the press, from church pulpits, and on other platforms. Their lectures became potent cultural catalysts, provoking far-reaching debate on the consequences and relevance of scientific thought for reconstructing cultural meaning and moral purpose.
Author : Roshani Chokshi
Publisher : Wednesday Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1250144566
*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* From New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi comes The Gilded Wolves, a novel set in Paris during a time of extraordinary change--one that is full of mystery, decadence, and dangerous desires... No one believes in them. But soon no one will forget them. It's 1889. The city is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. Here, no one keeps tabs on dark truths better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. When the elite, ever-powerful Order of Babel coerces him to help them on a mission, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance. To hunt down the ancient artifact the Order seeks, Séverin calls upon a band of unlikely experts: An engineer with a debt to pay. A historian banished from his home. A dancer with a sinister past. And a brother in arms if not blood. Together, they will join Séverin as he explores the dark, glittering heart of Paris. What they find might change the course of history--but only if they can stay alive.
Author : Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Publisher :
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Political science
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Author : Percy Arthur Baxter Silburn
Publisher : London : Longmans, Green
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Michael J. F. Chapman
Publisher : Ad Donker Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : Edgar S. Werner
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Elocution
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 1846
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Michael J. F. Chapman
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 1981
Category : South African poetry (English)
ISBN :