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Centering on five life stories by Chinese women activists, this history of Chinese May Fourth feminism disrupts the Chinese Communist Party's master narrative of Chinese women's liberation, reconfigures the history of the Chinese Enlightenment from a gender perspective, and addresses the question of how feminism engendered social change

This volume brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a collection of documents detailing half a century of their lives in America. It provides a mosaic of Chinese women's experiences in their own words, as they tell of making homes from the Gold Rush through World War II.

A riveting drama of a German prisoner-of-war camp, that was adapted from the Broadway play directed by Jose Ferrer in 1951.

Includes introduction that looks at the transformation from novel to film and examines Wilder and coauthor Charles Brackett's methods as collaborators. This title helps readers gain important insights into the craft of screenwriting, and the personality and methods of one of Hollywood's greatest directors.

Includes essays which show that Nietzsche still has a great deal to say to those who read him with an eye toward developing critical responses to our present and the future that will follow.

Analyzing Kant's argument for a dynamical plenum in the Third Analogy of Experience, this text goes on to examine the broader context of Kant's views about matter, substance, causal influence, and physical aether in connection with the developmental history of his theory of transcendental idealism.

Explores the social and political dimensions of sexuality and sexual experience. This title reconfigures notions of gender and sexuality, linking them to understandings of power, resistance, and emancipation around the globe.

This volume answers the baffling question of how, while mounting some of the most aggressive challenges to employing classes anywhere in the world, organized labour in the US has embraced the capitalist system of which they are a part.

The US has experienced a dramatic increase in births to unmarried women - from 4 per cent of births in 1950, with most of the babies then adopted, to more than 30 per cent. This book analyses this radical change in family formation to compare and contrast the lives of these mothers of varying ages and economic circumstances.

Reveals the legacy of Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898), the poet who fathered the symbolist movement in poetry and art. Through the lens of symbolism, this title focuses on a variety of subjects: sexual liberation and the erotic, anarchism, utopianism, labor, and women's creative role.

Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman emperors during the 4th century A D. This work focuses on the culture of Constantinople and the eastern Roman empire during the fourth century. It provides a resource on the late antique period, as well as on Greek intellectual history and oratory.

This volume, organized as a passport, combines theory, poetry, cultural criticism and photography to explore the complexities of the immigration experience, intervening in the impersonal language of the state.

Over the years the American religious landscape has undergone a dramatic change. More and more churches meet in converted warehouses, and many have ministers who've never attended a seminary. This title offers an examination of these 'new paradigm churches' - sometimes called megachurches or postdenominational churches.

Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. This title challenges the notion that markets necessarily promote rights and legal equality in any direct or linear fashion.

This collection of essays presents an ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision. It examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgensein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas.

Focusing on the David and Goliath struggle between Nike and grassroots activists critical of the company's overseas labor practices, this title shows how national activism can rewrite the supposedly ironclad rules of the global economy by ensuring fair wages and decent living standards for workers at home and abroad.

Constructs a framework that examines the subject of German collective memory, which has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. This title follows the evolution of German 'memory landscapes' all the way from national unification in 1870-71 through the world wars and political division to reunification in 1990.

A comprehensive assessment of electronic publishing. It offers original insights on a range of topics, including the financial costs involved, market forces, appropriate technological standards, licensing issues, intellectual property, copyright and associated user rights, and the changing roles of researchers, publishers, and librarians.

Through essays, articles, and interviews, this title presents the reader with the momentous changes in Poland and East-Central Europe. Sharing the author's intellectual journey through a tumultuous era, it focuses on the subjects important to him.

French sea captain Auguste Duhaut-Cilly failed in his quest to become wealthy from his around-the-world travels between 1826 and 1829. However, he recorded his impressions of the California coast and the region's natural history and human populations in a diary. This text provides a translation.

Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, this book explores one of the central social conflicts of the late 20th century. It addresses not simply the abortion issue but also the critical role of women's political activism.

Provides an history of the planning, design, and construction of the six-building Getty Center in Los Angeles, one of the great cultural complexes. This book takes us behind the scenes of the thirteen-year-long, one-billion-dollar project.

In this analysis of one of the most spectacular breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world.

In contrast to previous studies of the Marriage Law in China between 1949 and 1968, this text argues that the law reshaped marriage and family relationships in significant - but often unintended - ways throughout the Maoist period.

Illuminates the diverse elements that constitute opera by focusing the investigation around three main categories: composition and production; words, music, and drama; and the interaction of society, genre, and aesthetics.

The 1960s was not just an era of civil rights, anti-war protest, women's liberation, marijuana, hippies, and rock festivals. The 1960s is about the New Right. This text examines the generation that came into political consciousness during the 1960s, telling the story of the New Right and New Left.

Offers a comprehensive reconsideration of the life and literary works of Paulinus of Nola (ca 352-431), a Roman senator who renounced his political career and secular lifestyle to become a monk, bishop, impresario of a saint's cult, and prominent Christian poet. This title traces Paulinus' intellectual and spiritual journey.

Presents a comprehensive study of American Buddhism. This title considers various Buddhist practices, rituals, and liturgies, as well as the ways these communities have confronted the changing American spiritual landscape. Profiling different sanghas, it reveals the ways that Buddhism is being both reinvented and Westernized.

What kinds of persons do we aspire to be, and how do our aspirations fit with our ideas of rationality? This title argues that most of us aspire to a certain sort of integrity: we wish to be respectful of and sympathetic to others, and to be loving parents, friends, and members of our communities.

Focusing on the socio-cultural as well as the political dimensions of the Sergius cult, this study sheds light on the lives of the ordinary faithful, as well as on religion's place in the strategic calculations of hostile empires. It discusses Arab Christianity in the context of late Roman culture in the East.