Автор: Wasserstrom Jeffrey Название: Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink ISBN: 1733623744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781733623742 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 13710 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: What can the massive protests that have roiled Hong Kong and the harsh repressive moves made against activists tell us about where this special metropolis is heading? And about how a resurgent China under strongman rule is challenging and reshaping the international order? Jeffrey Wasserstrom draws on his many visits to the city and his background as a specialist in the history of protests against authoritarianism to make a powerful and sobering case for the near inevitability of China's imposing its model on Hong Kong. Vigil tells a tale of two interrelated processes. The first involves a stop and go, but never reversing, set of moves by China's Communist Party to minimize the many things that once made Hong Kong unlike the cities neighboring it just across the border on the mainland. The result of this has been that, since the 1997 Handover from Great Britain to China, more and more of the once clear-cut contrasts between Hong Kong and nearby urban centers such as Canton and Shenzhen--differences that decades ago were as stark as those between East Berlin and West Berlin--are lessening or going away completely. The second process involves bold efforts by residents of Hong Kong to push back against this erosion of differences. The key actors are people who are passionately committed to defending the special qualities of a city they love--a freer press, more judicial independence, a system of rule of law rather than rule by law--against moves to diminish them made by Beijing and its local proxies. The result has been one of the great David versus Goliath stories of our time, pitting creative and determined activists, joined on the streets in recent years by ever larger numbers of Hong Kong residents, against a Chinese Communist Party whose global clout keeps growing and whose current leader, Xi Jinping, has grand ambitions for bringing all parts of the People's Republic of China under tighter forms of control. The result is a tale of heroism but also tragedy. Even against-all-odds longshot victories--and there have been some--can only slow a process that has led, in essence, to Hong Kong's people becoming subjects of first the great imperial power of the nineteenth century and now the most important rising imperial power of the current era.
Автор: Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Paul Robertson Название: All Religion Is Inter-Religion: Engaging the Work of Steven M. Wasserstrom ISBN: 1350062219 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350062214 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 116160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
All Religion Is Inter-Religion analyses the ways inter-religious relations have contributed both historically and philosophically to the constructions of the category of "religion" as a distinct subject of study.
Regarded as contemporary classics, Steven M. Wasserstrom's Religion after Religion (1999) and Between Muslim and Jew (1995), provided a theoretical reorientation for the study of religion away from hierophanies and ultimacy, and toward lived history and deep pluralism. This book distills and systematizes this reorientation into "nine theses on the study of religion".
Drawing on these theses, as well as Wasserstrom's opus more generally, a distinguished group of colleagues and former students demonstrate that religions can and must be understood through encounters in real time and space and through the complex relations they create and maintain between people, as well as between people and their pasts. The book also features an afterword by Wasserstrom himself, which poses nine riddles to students of religion based on his personal experiences working on religion at the turn of the 21st century.
Автор: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Название: China`s Brave New World: And Other Tales for Global Times ISBN: 0253219086 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253219084 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 21730.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: If Chairman Mao came back to life today, what would he think of Nanjing's bookstore, the Librairie Avant-Garde, where it is easier to find primers on Michel Foucault's philosophy than copies of the Little Red Book? What does it really mean to order a latte at Starbucks in Beijing? Is it possible that Aldous Huxley wrote a novel even more useful than Orwell's 1984 for making sense of post-Tiananmen China—or post-9/11 America? In these often playful, always enlightening "tales," Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom poses these and other questions as he journeys from 19th-century China into the future, and from Shanghai to Chicago, St. Louis, and Budapest. He argues that simplistic views of China and Americanization found in most soundbite-driven media reports serve us poorly as we try to understand China's place in the current world order—or our own.
Автор: Ghaneabassiri Kambiz, Robertson Paul Название: All Religion Is Inter-Religion: Engaging the Work of Steven M. Wasserstrom ISBN: 1350236853 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350236851 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 65830.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
All Religion Is Inter-Religion analyses the ways inter-religious relations have contributed both historically and philosophically to the constructions of the category of "religion" as a distinct subject of study.
Regarded as contemporary classics, Steven M. Wasserstrom's Religion after Religion (1999) and Between Muslim and Jew (1995) provided a theoretical reorientation for the study of religion away from hierophanies and ultimacy, and toward lived history and deep pluralism. This book distills and systematizes this reorientation into nine theses on the study of religion. Drawing on these theses--and Wasserstrom's opus more generally--a distinguished group of his colleagues and former students demonstrate that religions can, and must, be understood through encounters in real time and space, through the complex relations they create and maintain between people, and between people and their pasts. The book also features an afterword by Wasserstrom himself, which poses nine riddles to students of religion based on his personal experiences working on religion at the turn of the twenty-first century.
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