The Mandarin Effect The Crisis Of Meaning
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| Author | : Joe Dixon |
| Publisher | : Magus Books |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
Are you struggling to find meaning in your life? Then you are a victim of the Mandarin Effect. This is one of the most sinister features of the modern world, and is being highlighted here for the first time. The force that most contributes to the crisis of meaning is the last one you would expect. Who are the Mandarins and how are they ruining the world? What can be done about them? Who are the small group that can combat the Mandarins, and why have they been airbrushed out of history, as if they never existed? Come inside and read the extraordinary story of a hidden war that is shaping the destiny of the human race. Humanity is currently losing. But, thanks to one group, hope is not yet extinguished.
| Author | : Roni Reiter-Palmon |
| Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
| Total Pages | : 421 |
| Release | : 2022-04-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 2889749169 |
| Author | : Charles R. Bambach |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2018-09-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1501726730 |
The collapse of historicism was not merely the demise of an academic tradition but signified a shift in the understanding of hermeneutics and metaphysics. Whereas earlier books have explored the rise and dominance of historicism within academic history, this is the first to trace its collapse and to show how it was shaped by larger philosophical and scientific concerns. Charles R. Bambach's lucid account of the demise of historicism within the context of German metaphysics provides a rich new perspective on the development of the young Heidegger's concept of "historicity" and on the origins of postmodern thought. Bambach reconstructs the methodological debates arising from a pervasive sense of crisis among German philosophers in the late nineteenth century. He details the divergent attempts by the Neo-Kantians, Nietzsche, and Dilthey to overcome the limitations of historical relativism. Heidegger's view of "historicity," Bambach shows, radically transforms the problematic of historicism into a discourse concerning the crisis of philosophical modernity.
| Author | : Poshek Fu |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2002-03-25 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9780521776028 |
This volume examines Hong Kong cinema in transnational, historical, and artistic contexts.
| Author | : Rey Chow |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781452900490 |
In this era, analysis of the West has become not only possible but mandatory. Where does this analysis leave those ethnic peoples whose entry into culture is, precisely because of the history of Western imperialism, already "Westernized"? This is the primary question Rey Chow addresses in "Woman and Chinese Modernity". The author brings together a variety of texts about modern China - from Bertolucci's "Last Emperor" and the "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly" stories, to writings by male and female authors of the May Fourth period - and organizes them along four critical paths all of which involve "woman". Those include the visual image, literary history, narrative structure and emotional reception. These, in turn, allow four mutually implicated aspects of "Chinese" modernity to come to the fore - the ethnic spectator, the fragmentation of tradition in popular literature, the problematic construction of a new "inner" reality through narration, and the relations between sexuality, sentimentalism and reading.
| Author | : Ming K. Chan |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 453 |
| Release | : 2016-07-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1315498634 |
Hong Kong has undergone sweeping transformation since its return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. This is a multidisciplinary assessment of the new regime and key issues, challenges, crises and opportunities confronting the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2014-07-03 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 900427779X |
Religion is alive and well all over the world, especially in times of personal, political, and social crisis. Even in Europe, long regarded the most “secular” continent, religion has taken centre stage in how people respond to the crises associated with modernity, or how they interact with the nation-state. In this book, scholars working in and on Europe offer fresh perspectives on how religion provides answers to existential crisis, how crisis increases the salience of religious identities and cultural polarization, and how religion is contributing to changes in the modern world in Europe and beyond. Cases from Poland to Pakistan and from Ireland to Zimbabwe, among others, demonstrate the complexity and ambivalence of religion’s role in the contemporary world. Contributors are Mariecke van den Berg, David J. Bos, Marco Derks, Marco Derks, R. Ruard Ganzevoort, Miloš Jovanović, Vladimir Kmec, Marta Kołodziejska, Anne-Marie Korte, Anne-Sophie Lamine, Christophe Monnot, Alexandre Piettre, Ali Qadir, Srdjan Sremac, Joram Tarusaria, Martina Topić, and Tom Wagner.
| Author | : Samuel Wells Williams |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1364 |
| Release | : 1874 |
| Genre | : Chinese language |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Stefan Landsberger |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2020-11-25 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1315481243 |
Brightly coloured prints, portraying model behaviour or a better future, have been a ubiquitous element of Chinese political culture from Imperial times until present. As economic reform swept the People's Republic in the 1980s, visual propaganda ceased to depict the tanned and muscular labourers in a proletarian utopia, so typical of preceding decades. Instead, Western icons of progress and development were employed: high-speed bullet trains, spacecraft, high-rise buildings, gridlocked free-ways and projections of general affluence. Socialist Realism was phased out by design and mixed- media techniques that were influenced by Western advertising. This lavishly illustrated study traces the development of the style and content of the Chinese propaganda poster in the decade of reform, from its traditional origins to its use as a tool for political and economic purposes.
| Author | : Ya-Hui Cheng |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2023-04-14 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1000866831 |
Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres – jazz, rock, and hip-hop – in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China and Taiwan, from imperialism to westernization and from modernization to globalization. The political sensitivities across the strait have long eclipsed the discussion of these shared sonic intimacies. It was not until the rise of the digital age, when entertainment programs from China and Taiwan reached social media on a global scale, that audiences realized the existence of this sonic reciprocation. Analyzing Chinese pentatonicism and popular songs published from 1927 to the present, this book discusses structural elements in Chinese popular music to show how they aligned closely with Chinese folk traditions. While the influences from Western genres are inevitable under the phenomenon of globalization, Chinese songwriters utilized these Western inspirations to modernize their musical traditions. It is a sensitivity for exhibiting cultural identities that enabled popular music to present a unique Chinese global image while transcending political discord and unifying mass cultures across the strait.
