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Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, ...

Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, ...

Nicolai Volland

See Saishing Yung and Christopher Rea, “From Print to Screen: The Cultural Enterprises of Law Bun,” in The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900–65, ed. Christopher Rea and Nicolai Volland ...
A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

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你想我如何能讀書, Just think, how could I read,如何能把我的心關在這幾張紙上! how lock away my heart in pages yet to fill! (Trans. Nicolai Volland) Hu's “Yihan” belongs to the first wave of Chinese poems written in the new vernacular.10 Hu ...
Heirs to World Culture: Being Indonesian, 1950-1965

Heirs to World Culture: Being Indonesian, 1950-1965

Jennifer Lindsay

In the case of the PRC, Nicolai Volland has written that the government made strenuous efforts to promote socialist principles and ideology through literature, and urged well-known writers to produce new works that advanced this cause ...
The Chinese Typewriter: A History

The Chinese Typewriter: A History

Thomas S. Mullaney

Christopher Rea and Nicolai Volland, eds., The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900–65 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2015). 26. JoAnne Yates, Control through Communication: ...
China's Thought Management

China's Thought Management

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Nicolai Volland iscurrently a Visiting Fellow at the National University ofSingapore. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Tongue and the Throat : The Origins of Media Control in Modern China. Wang Juntao had a career as a political ...
Online Society in China: Creating, celebrating, and ...

Online Society in China: Creating, celebrating, and ...

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Nicolai Volland Previous studies on the Chinese Internet have tended to focus on the potential of the electronic media to bring about political change, on the Chinese government«s efforts to stifle dissent and control the flows of information , ...
The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and ...

The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and ...

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Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900-65 Christopher Rea, Nicolai Volland. category helps us to understand patterns of cultural agency even in environments hostile to entrepreneurship. To this end, the chapter examines ...
The Pragmatic Dragon: China’s Grand Strategy and Boundary ...

The Pragmatic Dragon: China’s Grand Strategy and Boundary ...

Eric Hyer

... Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949 Alison R. Marshall, Cultivating Connections: The Making of Chinese Prairie Canada Ruoyun Bai, Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics Christopher G. Rea and Nicolai Volland, ...
The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China

The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China

Christopher Rea

China Heritage Quarterly 30–31 (June–September 2012). www. chinaheritagequarterly.org/features.php?searchterm=030_rea.inc&issue=030. Rea, Christopher, and Nicolai Volland, eds. The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in ...
The Princess

The Princess

Lori Wick

Prince Nicolai is heir to the throne and to his people's hearts. But agreeing to an arranged marriage for the good of his people, the prince finds that his new bride requires special tenderness if he is to win her heart.
Santa Fe: Houses & Gardens

Santa Fe: Houses & Gardens

Susan Daley

Covers top regional private homes, museum houses, interiors, furnishings, and gardens, in a photographic tour that includes the Blumenschein House, the Nicolai Fechin House, and the Martinez Hacienda.
The Ethical Economy: Rebuilding Value After the Crisis

The Ethical Economy: Rebuilding Value After the Crisis

Adam Arvidsson

In this volume, Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen show wealth creation can be the result of a new kind of social production, and the motivation of continuous capital accumulation can exist in tandem with a desire to maximize our social ...
Machiavelli in the British Isles: Two Early Modern ...

Machiavelli in the British Isles: Two Early Modern ...

Alessandra Petrina

23 Paul hyland harris, review of Machiavelli's Prince: An Elizabethan Translation by hardin craig, Italica 22 (1945): 150. 24 craig, p. viii. 25 see ibid., pp. xxvi–xxvii. see Nicolai Machiavelli reip. florentinae a secretis, ad Laurentium Medicem de ...
Famous Character Dolls

Famous Character Dolls

Susan Brewer

Macmillan 1961 Rumer Godden, Home is the Sailor. Macmillan 1964 Johnny Gruelle, Raggedy Ann Stories (and others in the series). Volland 1918 Ann Matthews, Martin Karen's Doll. Hippo 1995 Ann Matthews, Martin Karen's Doll Hospital.

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