Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China, Laurence Coderre

Автор: Laurence Coderre
Название: Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China
ISBN: 147801430X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781478014300
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Contemporary China is seen as a place of widespread commodification and consumerism, while the preceeding Maoist Cultural Revolution is typically understood as a time when goods were scarce and the state criticized what little consumption was possible. Indeed, with the exception of the likeness and words of Mao Zedong, both the media and material culture of the Cultural Revolution are often characterized as a void out of which the postsocialist world of commodity consumption miraculously sprang fully formed. In Newborn Socialist Things, Laurence Coderre explores the material culture of the Cultural Revolution to show how it paved the way for commodification in contemporary China. Examining objects ranging from retail counters and porcelain statuettes to textbooks and vanity mirrors, she shows how the project of building socialism in China has always been intimately bound up with consumption. By focusing on these objects—or “newborn socialist things”—along with the Cultural Revolution’s media environment, discourses of materiality, and political economy, Coderre reconfigures understandings of the origins of present-day China.

Автор: , Coderre Bette-Jean
Название: Teddy`s Rhyme & Reason: The Poetic Mewsings of an F.O.T. (Fabulous Orange Tabby)
ISBN: 0578694654 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780578694658
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Описание: If you have a great eye and you are looking for a good book, then look no longer; as "Teddy's Rhyme & Reason" is the book for you. If you want to read and relax, chuckle and concur, tag along with Teddy, a precocious and prestigious cat, as he purrduces poetic rhymes and reasons for every month of the year. So, "sit down, relax, this book purr-ruse and you will surely be amewsed" by Teddy's wonderful, whimsical work-osophy: "All work and no play is never part of my day." "Teddy's Rhyme & Reason" written by Bette-Jean Coderre and illustrated by Karen S. Marshall is a marvelous mixture of philosophy and pun.