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A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants migrants or workingclass proletariats but middleclass professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and socialist ideals they hope to find material comfort and social distinction in newly constructed gated communities This quest for the good life is profoundly transforming the physical and social landscapes of urban China Li Zhang who is from Kunming the capital of Yunnan province turns a keen ethnographic eye on her hometown She combines her analysis of larger political and social issues with finegrained details about the profound spatial cultural and political effects of the shift in the way Chinese urban residents live their lives and think about themselves In Search of Paradise is a deeply informed account of how the rise of private homeownership is reconfiguring urban space class subjects gender selfhood and ways of life in the reform era New seemingly individualistic lifestyles mark a dramatic move away from yearning for a social utopia under Maoist socialism Yet the privatization of property and urban living have engendered a simultaneous movement of public engagement among homeowners as they confront the encroaching power of the developers This double movement of privatized living and public sphere activism Zhang finds is a distinctive feature of the cultural politics of the middle classes in contemporary China Theoretically sophisticated and highly accessible Zhangs account will appeal not only to those interested in China but also to anyone interested in spatial politics middleclass culture and postsocialist governing in a globalizing world
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Deluxe BlurayDVD Combo Newly Restored Edition Join Lowell Thomas and follow in the footsteps of Marco Polo in this new digital restoration of SEARCH FOR PARADISE the fourth of the original 3panel Cinerama travelogues Released in 1957 the motion picture takes you to the Roof of the World the Himalayas and Karakoram mountains of Central Asia the highest region in the world Youll become part of the adventure as explorer Lowell Thomas searches for paradise in the ancient cities wild
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Always on the move he was brought up in Lima and worked in Paris and Brittany Paul Gauguin left France for good in 1891 to settle in Tahiti The canvases he sent back were to have a profound influence on 20thcentury art their revolutionary use of brilliant pure colour and rejection of naturalism were an inspiration to a generation of younger artists from Matisse to Picasso Indispensible to an understanding of this complex man and the artistic commercial and personal pressures that drove him are his own letters and other writings which contain explanations of pictures that meant a great deal to him and what he was trying to achieve in his work and evocative descriptions of Tahitian life This is a collection of extracts from Gauguins correspondence to his wife in Denmark his agent in Paris and his friends including Strindberg and Van Gogh and from his journals Noa Noa and Avant et Apres The extracts are juxtaposed with illustrations of his oil paintings watercolours and letter sketches
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In Search of Paradise is a survey of the great gardens of the world presented through photographic images and the descriptions of the garden designer and writer Penelope Hobhouse Here you will find the oases of the Middle East the gardens of Chinese scholars Japanese sages and Renaissance humanists French baroque gardens the English landscape garden of Capability Brown and his followers Here too are the gardens of the great modern designers among them Roberto Burle Marx Fernando Caruncho Dan Kiley John Brookes and James van Sweden
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The archetypal myth of lost paradise found in both civilized and primitive cultures throughout history was central to Enlightenment and Romantic thought influencing philosophical literary artistic and musical works This 2008 book explores manifestations of the lost paradise myth in Lieder by Franz Schubert Johannes Brahms Hugo Wolf and other nineteenthcentury composers with emphasis on works conveying nostalgia for classical antiquity childhood and folk song Through a series of autonomous yet interrelated studies Marjorie Hirsch examines the myths influence on the origins and development of the Romantic Lied The book thus takes a thematic approach to the study of Romantic Lieder with introductory sections supplying historical context for analyses of individual songs or small groups of songs expressing nostalgia for lost paradise in various guises
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