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In this colorful and detailed history, Joshua Goldstein describes the formation of the Peking opera in late Qing and its subsequent rise and re-creation as the epitome of the Chinese national culture in Republican era China. Providing a fascinating look into the lives of some of the opera's key actors, he explores their methods for earning a living; their status in an ever-changing society; the methods by which theaters functioned; the nature and content of performances; audience make-up; and the larger relationship between Peking opera and Chinese nationalism. Propelled by a synergy of the commercial and the political patronage from the Qing court in Beijing to modern theaters in Shanghai and Tianjin, Peking opera rose to national prominence. The genre's star actors, particularly male cross-dressing performers led by the exquisite Mei Lanfang and the "Four Great Female Impersonators" became media celebrities, models of modern fashion and world travel. Ironically, as it became increasingly entrenched in modern commercial networks, Peking opera was increasingly framed in post-May fourth discourses as profoundly traditional. Drama Kings demonstrates that the process of reforming and marketing Peking opera as a national genre was integrally involved with process of colonial modernity, shifting gender roles, the rise of capitalist visual culture, and new technologies of public discipline that became increasingly prevalent in urban China in the Republican era.
Operas, Chinese --- Theater --- Beijing operas --- Chinese operas --- Ching chü --- Jingju --- Operas, Beijing --- Operas, Peking --- Peking operas --- Pʻing chü (Chinese operas) --- Chinese drama --- History. --- Mei, Lanfang, --- Mei, Lan-fang, --- Meilanfang, --- 梅兰芳, --- S16/0300 --- S16/0320 --- History --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional theatre: studies --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Modern theatre: studies --- Théâtre --- Opéra de Pékin --- History and criticism --- Histoire --- career. --- celebrities. --- chinese history. --- cross dressing. --- cross-dressers. --- cultural anthropology. --- detailed history. --- dramatic. --- emotional rollercoaster. --- four great female impersonators. --- gender bending. --- gender roles. --- historical reenactments. --- history of china. --- history. --- intense emotion. --- intense. --- lively. --- melodrama. --- peking opera. --- performing arts. --- politics. --- qing dynasty. --- theater and opera. --- theater history. --- theatrical.
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A landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan's books and magazine publications up to and including Letters: Poems 1953-1956. Deftly edited, it thoroughly documents the first phase of Duncan's distinguished life in writing, making it possible to trace the poet's development as he approaches the brilliant work of his middle period. This volume includes the celebrated works Medieval Scenes and The Venice Poem, all of Duncan's long unavailable major ventures into drama, his extensive "imitations" of Gertrude Stein, and the remarkable poems written in Majorca as responses to a series of collaged paste-ups by Duncan's life-long partner, the painter Jess. Books appear in chronological order of publication, with uncollected periodical and other publications arranged chronologically, following each book. The introduction includes a biographical commentary on Duncan's early life and works, and clears an initial path through the textual complexities of his early writing. Notes offer brief commentaries on each book and on many of the poems. The volume to follow, The Collected Later Poetry and Plays, will include The Opening of the Field (1960), Roots and Branches (1964), Bending the Bow (1968), Ground Work (1984), and Ground Work II (1987).
American literature. --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Duncan, Robert, --- Duncan, Robert Edward, --- Symmes, Robert, --- Duncan, Edward Howard, --- R. D. --- D., R. --- Duncan, Edward Howe, --- Symmes, Robert Edward, --- 20th century poetry. --- american history. --- american poetry. --- art of poetry. --- books for poetry lovers. --- classical plays. --- classical poetry. --- complex literacy. --- creative writing. --- drama. --- emotional poems. --- engaging. --- gifts for mom. --- hardship. --- how to write a poem. --- inspirational stories. --- intense emotion. --- intense. --- leisure reads. --- literary art. --- literary skills. --- love poems. --- page turner. --- playwright. --- poems and plays. --- poetry book. --- poetry skills. --- robert duncan. --- touching. --- travel books. --- vacation reads.
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high energy density physics --- pulsed power --- intense laser --- beam plasma interaction --- fusion (inertial and magnetic confinement) --- high pressure physics --- Matter --- Effect of radiation on --- Effect of radiation on. --- Atoms --- Dynamics --- Gravitation --- Physics --- Substance (Philosophy) --- high pressure physics --- high energy physics --- fusion --- pulsed power technology --- high power electromagnetics
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"We are cozy cuddly/armed and dangerous/and we will/raze the fucking prisons/to the ground." In an attempt to deliver on this promise, the George Jackson Brigade launched a violent three-year campaign in the mid-1970's against corporate and state institutions in the Pacific Northwest. This campaign, conceived by a group of blacks and whites, both straight and gay, claimed fourteen bombings, as many bank robberies, and a jailbreak. Drawing on extensive interviews with surviving members of the George Jackson Brigade, Guerrilla USA provides an inside-out perspective on the social movements of the 1970's, revealing the whole era in a new and more complex light. It is also a compelling exploration of the true nature of crime and a provocative meditation on the tension between self-restraint and anger in the process of social change.
Guerrillas --- History --- George Jackson Brigade --- 1970s. --- american history. --- anarchism. --- anger. --- anti corporations. --- anti state institutions. --- anticapitalist underground. --- bank robberies. --- bombers. --- bombings. --- crime. --- criminals outlaws. --- discussion books. --- engaging. --- george jackson brigade. --- imprisonment. --- insider perspective. --- intense. --- interviews. --- jailbreak. --- modern history. --- nonfiction. --- pacific northwest. --- page turner. --- revolt. --- revolutionary extremism. --- social change. --- social movements. --- terrorism. --- true crime. --- united states. --- violence. --- war.
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This bold and innovative book traces the phenomenon of the "odyssey" experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. Drawing on an astonishing range of examples, Neil J. Smelser focuses on how such experiences enhance our lives and provide us with meaning and dignity. The odyssey experience, as Smelser advances it, is generic, widespread, and recurring. It is a finite period of disengagement from the routines of life and immersion into a simpler, transitory, often collective, usually intense period of involvement that culminates in some kind of regeneration. By examining a variety of topics as part of a larger, overarching phenomenon, Smelser transforms their study from the particular to the comparative. The Odyssey Experience thus reaches beyond a simple description of where and how transformations occur in daily life to offer a profound explanation for why they are there.
Insight. --- Introspection. --- Life change events. --- Vision quests. --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages. --- Voyages and travels. --- behavioral studies. --- comparative studies. --- engaging. --- human behavior. --- human condition. --- human experiences. --- human tendencies. --- intense period of life. --- life changes. --- life journeys. --- life lessons. --- nonfiction. --- odyssey. --- personal growth. --- personal transformation. --- physical journeys. --- psychological journeys. --- quest for meaning. --- regeneration. --- religion and spirituality. --- scientists. --- self help. --- social relationships. --- spiritual journeys. --- spiritual.
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What is it like for a convicted murderer who has spent decades behind bars to suddenly find himself released into a world he barely recognizes? What is it like to start over from nothing? To answer these questions Sabine Heinlein followed the everyday lives and emotional struggles of Angel Ramos and his friends Bruce and Adam-three men convicted of some of society's most heinous crimes-as they return to the free world.Heinlein spent more than two years at the Castle, a prominent halfway house in West Harlem, shadowing her protagonists as they painstakingly learn how to master their freedom. Having lived most of their lives behind bars, the men struggle to cross the street, choose a dish at a restaurant, and withdraw money from an ATM. Her empathetic first-person narrative gives a visceral sense of the men's inner lives and of the institutions they encounter on their odyssey to redemption. Heinlein follows the men as they navigate the subway, visit the barber shop, venture on stage, celebrate Halloween, and loop through the maze of New York's reentry programs. She asks what constitutes successful rehabilitation and how one faces the guilt and shame of having taken someone's life.With more than 700,000 people being released from prisons each year to a society largely unprepared-and unwilling-to receive them, this book provides an incomparable perspective on a pressing public policy issue. It offers a poignant view into a rarely seen social setting and into the hearts and minds of three unforgettable individuals who struggle with some of life's harshest challenges.
Criminals --- Crime and criminals --- Delinquents --- Offenders --- Persons --- Crime --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminology --- Rehabilitation --- anthropology. --- behind bars. --- biography. --- convicted murderer. --- convicted murders. --- crime. --- emotional struggles. --- engaging. --- everyday lives. --- freedom. --- gender studies. --- heinous crimes. --- human behavior. --- imprisonment. --- incomparable perspective. --- intense. --- page turner. --- poignant. --- prison. --- psychology. --- public policy. --- realistic. --- redemption. --- reentry programs. --- social culture. --- social issues. --- social justice. --- social science. --- society. --- sociology. --- successful rehabilitation. --- true crime. --- west harlem.
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711.4 --- 711.6 --- 711.64 --- 728 --- 728.2/3 --- 721 --- Groningen --- 711.4(C)(492) --- Stedenbouw ; vormgeving ; analyse ; Nederland --- Stedenbouw ; Nederland ; compactestadbeleid --- Stedenbouw ; architectuur ; densiteit --- Duurzame stedenbouw ; Nederland --- Collectieve woningbouw ; 21ste eeuw ; typologie --- Woonblokken ; Nederland ; intense laagbouw --- Stedenbouw --- Stadsplanning --- Stedelijke verkaveling --- Densiteit --- Verdichting --- Woningbouw (architectuur) --- Woningen (architectuur) --- Compacte woningen --- Gebouwen (typologie) --- Stedenbouw. Ruimtelijke ordening ; vormgeving en analyse van de stad ; Nederland --- Private houses --- low-rise housing --- Groningen [Groningen]
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We all agree that people with MS need to be cared in a profoundly personalized way. The care of the patient with MS is still based on the presence of relapses, so their successful diagnosis and treatment is fundamental and will condition the therapeutic strategies to follow with the patient. The treatment strategies are a highly controversial topic of debate that is increasingly supported by robust objective biological markers of response and that also increasingly take into account the dynamics and predictors of cognitive impairment along the disease course, which includes the adoption of new trends in the field of machine learning techniques. However, we all know that patient care goes beyond being treated with drugs and we cannot overlook reminding patients of the importance of their lifestyle behaviors that vary according to the MS phenotype, in order to improve their quality of life. Teleconsultation is a new care strategy proved to be feasible and well-received by patients with MS that will undoubtedly become reinforced because it will allow a closer follow-up of the patient without the need for displacement.
Public health & preventive medicine --- cognition --- cognitive impairment --- neuroimaging --- longitudinal --- predictors --- multiple sclerosis --- lifestyle behavior --- MS management --- MS phenotype --- quality of life --- natalizumab --- extended interval dose --- biomarker --- CD49d --- sVCAM-1 --- immunomonitoring --- personalized dose --- prognosis --- machine learning --- artificial intelligence --- relapse --- pseudo-relapses --- methylprednisolone --- treatment algorithm --- multiple sclerosis treatment --- escalating strategy --- he-DMT --- diseases modifying therapies --- early intense therapy --- teleconsultation --- internet --- feasibility --- digital health --- neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder --- health-related quality of life --- mood --- n/a
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This text presents cutting-edge topics on and the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for tear film abnormities, including dry eye disease and Meibomian gland dysfunction. A new management algorithm for Meibomian gland dysfunction, therapeutic eye drops and intense pulsed lasers for dry eye disease, and topical and systemic agents for neuropathic ocular pain are proposed in this issue.
Medicine --- cross-sectional study --- dry eye disease --- systemic comorbidity --- graves’ ophthalmopathy --- inflammation --- meibomian glands --- morphological changes --- meibomian gland dysfunction --- ocular surface disease --- dry eye symptoms --- questionnaire --- Bangladesh --- global health --- epidemiology --- aqueous-deficient dry eye --- meibomian gland --- intense pulsed light --- severe keratitis --- hyaluronan --- hylan A --- multicenter --- randomized trial --- gabapentin --- dry eye --- neuropathic pain --- diabetes --- neuropathic keratopathy --- neuropathy --- nerve growth --- neurotrophic --- Houttuynia --- ultrasonic atomization --- meibography --- meiboscore --- TRPM8 agonist --- cryosim-3 --- fatty acids --- vitamin D --- brief-type self-administered diet history questionnaire --- Japanese
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Based on multiarchival research conducted over almost three decades, this landmark account tells how a few men set off a war that would lead to tragedy for millions. Stein Tønnesson was one of the first historians to delve into scores of secret French, British, and American political, military, and intelligence documents. In this fascinating account of an unfolding tragedy, he brings this research to bear to disentangle the complex web of events, actions, and mentalities that led to thirty years of war in Indochina. As the story unfolds, Tønnesson challenges some widespread misconceptions, arguing that French general Leclerc fell into a Chinese trap in March 1946, and Vietnamese general Giap into a French trap in December. Taking us from the antechambers of policymakers in Paris to the docksides of Haiphong and the streets of Hanoi, Vietnam 1946 provides the most vivid account to date of the series of events that would make Vietnam the most embattled area in the world during the Cold War period.
Indochinese War, 1946-1954. --- Indochinese War, 1946-1954 --- Causes. --- Vietnam --- France --- China --- History --- Relations --- 1946. --- american military. --- british military. --- china. --- chinese. --- cold war period. --- comprehensive account. --- engaging. --- french military. --- french. --- global politics. --- global tragedy. --- haiphong. --- hanoi. --- indochina. --- intense. --- modern history. --- nations at war. --- nonfiction. --- page turner. --- paris. --- policymakers. --- politics. --- prewar events. --- research. --- revolution and war. --- secret intelligence documents. --- southeast asia. --- vietnam history. --- vietnam war. --- vietnam. --- war drama. --- war in indochina.
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