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Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
M. Ackbar AbbasIn an intriguing and provocative exploration of its cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, Ackbar Abbas considers what Hong Kong can teach us about the future of both the colonial city and the global city.
Cosmopolitanism
PreviewSee, for example, Ackbar Abbas, Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997). 13. See Abbas, ''The Erotics of Disappointment,'' in Wong Kar-wai, ed. Jean-Marc Lalanne , David ...
Chen Danqing: Painting After Tiananmen
M. Ackbar AbbasAbbas persuasively shows that the uniqueness of these works lies in their juxtaposition of Tiananmen's violent scenes with iconic images culled from Western mass media and popular culture.
Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization: ...
D. LeiAckbar Abbas (1997), 1–15. Mark Roberti, The Fall of Hong Kong: China's Triumph and Britain's Betrayal (New York: J. Wiley, 1996), 10–11. GOVHK Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau, “The Joint Declaration.
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
Ackbar AbbasThis is a rich and thought-provoking book which tries to capture a complex historical, cultural, and political postcolonial situation in the unique metropolis of contemporary Hong Kong.
Spectacle and the city: chinese urbanities in art and ...
PreviewGandalsonas, Mario, M. Ackbar Abbas, and M. Christine Boyer. Shanghai Reflections: Architecture, Urbanism and the Search for an Alternative Modernity: Essays. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002. Graafland, Arie. The Socius of ...
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
More editionsIn this intriguing and provocative exploration of its cinema, architecture, photography, and literature, Ackbar Abbas considers what Hong Kong, with its unique relations to decolonization and disappearance, can teach us about the future of ...
Literature & anthropology
More editionsJonathan Hall, M. Ackbar Abbas. 32. ibid. , p. 230 33- "Preface" , p. 21 6 3t. Jacques Derrida: Margins of Philosophy. tr. Alan Bass (Chicago 1982), p. 85 35. Walter Benjamin: Illuminations (London 1970) p. 258 36. Thomas Pynchon: The ...
Deleuze and Film
Preview(Teo 2007: 209) Indeed, Teo is not the only scholar to use Deleuze to look at Hong Kong films; Ackbar Abbas (1997), Ka-Fai Yau (2001), Janice Tong (2003), Gina Marchetti (2007), Meaghan Morris (2007) and Martin-Jones (2006, 2011) have ...
Shanghai Reflections: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Search ...
Mario GandelsonasA. Shanghai Reflections Mario Gandelsonas 36 l.B. Play It Again Shanghai: Urban Preservation in the Global Era Ackbar Abbas 56 I.e. Approaching the Memory of Shanghai: the Case of Zhang Yimou and Shanghai Triad (1995) M. Christine ...
The Myth of the Great Satan: A New Look at America's ...
Abbas MilaniA New Look at America's Relations with Iran Abbas Milani. engaged in a struggle for and over modernity; they have fought for constitutionalism, women's rights, checks on po- litical power, and a balance between faith and personal freedom.
Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran
Abbas MilaniIn the essays collected here, Abbas Milani uses an impressive array of cross-disciplinary Western and Iranian theories and texts to investigate the crucial question of modernity in Iran today.
The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the ...
Abbas MilaniThis work provides a narrative which illuminates the life of Iran's most pivotal and enigmatic 20th century figures but also sheds important light on Iran's late 20th century history.
Beyond Incrementalism: A New Strategy for Dealing with Iran
Abbas MilaniBeyond incrementalism : a new strategy for dealing with Iran / Abbas Milani, Michael McFaul, and Larry Diamond.
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Abbas MilaniBiografi om Irans sidste konge. Under et forskningsarbejde skriver forfatteren om shahenss private liv og hans rolle som en konge
Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir
Abbas MilaniThis book is not only the odyssey of one intellectual doomed to exile, but also a message of hope and salvation for the increasing number of people forced to leave their homeland and settle in America.
The Shah
Abbas MilaniThe Shah's was a life filled with contradiction—as a social reformer he built schools, increased equality for women, and greatly reduced the power of the Shia clergy.
Abbas Kiarostami
Mehrnaz Saeed-VafaA unique and resplendent collaboration featuring two distinct but complementing perspectives, the book places Kiarostami and his films in a national context and provides American readers with valuable insights into Iranian culture, ...
Mixed Methodology: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative ...
Abbas TashakkoriLooking for a practical guide to using mixed methodologies? This book explores the most effective way to combine qualitative and quantitative techniques.
Is There a Middle East?: The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept
Abbas AmanatThis book offers diverse debates on the possible manifestations and meanings of the term "Middle East."
Acta sanctorum: Ed. novissima
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