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The Compelling Ideal

Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956

By: Jan Kiely

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The Compelling Ideal

Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956

By: Jan Kiely

In this groundbreaking volume, based on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, Jan Kiely explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation (ganhua) that evolved into a key component of Mao Zedong’s revolutionary restructuring of Chinese society. Focusing on ganhua as it was employed in China’s prison system, Kiely’s thought-provoking work brings the history of this critical phenomenon to life through the stories of individuals who conceptualized, implemented, and experienced it, and he details how these techniques were subsequently adapted for broader social and political use.

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Yale University Press

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0300186371

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9780300186376

Defending the Ypres Front, 1914–1918

Trenches, Shelters & Bunkers of the German Army

By: Jan Vancoillie,Kristof Blieck

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Defending the Ypres Front, 1914–1918

Trenches, Shelters & Bunkers of the German Army

By: Jan Vancoillie,Kristof Blieck

Published by the Memorial Museum Passchendaele in 2016 in Dutch as Bouwen aan het front, this book examines how the German army developed field fortifications to hold what can loosely be described as the Ypres Front. With the decision by Falkenhayn in 1915 to concentrate Germanys offensive efforts largely in the east, the German defenders around Ypres set to developing their lines for semi-permanent occupation. The sub soil around the Salient generally made it difficult to construct and maintain mined (i.e. deep) dugouts—unlike on, for example the Somme, with easily worked chalk not far below the surface. The only practicable alternative was to use reinforced concrete.In this book the authors (both with many years of experience in researching and working on matters Great War, particularly the German army in Belgium) have examined in detail an impressive range of primary sources to provide a narrative of what the Germans built, how they built it (the logistical challenge was enormous) and how the designs and requirements of bunkers (for example, forward medical bunkers, artillery shelters, machine gun and observation bunkers) changed as the war progressed and as the military situation on the front dictated. There are many photographs, largely unseen by British readers, design diagrams and maps to supplement the text; whilst the activities of selected particular formations are examined in detail to provide an example of the effort that was put into the work.Additions to the Dutch edition will include a tours section, taking a visitor to accessible remaining structures in the Salient area; and a glossary of terms and their English equivalent. The book will be in full color throughout.

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Casemate Publishers

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1526707489

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9781526707482

How Societies Are Born

Governance in West Central Africa before 1600

By: Jan Vansina

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How Societies Are Born

Governance in West Central Africa before 1600

By: Jan Vansina

Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had roamed in West Central Africa for many thousands of years? Jan Vansina continues a career-long effort to reconstruct the history of African societies before European contact in How Societies Are Born. In this complement to his previous study Paths in the Rainforests, Vansina employs a provocative combination of archaeology and historical linguistics to turn his scholarly focus to governance, studying the creation of relatively large societies extending beyond the foraging groups that characterized west central Africa from the beginning of human habitation to around 500 BCE, and the institutions that bridged their constituent local communities and made large-scale cooperation possible. The increasing reliance on cereal crops, iron tools, large herds of cattle, and overarching institutions such as corporate matrilineages and dispersed matriclans lead up to the developments treated in the second part of the book. From about 900 BCE until European contact, different societies chose different developmental paths. Interestingly, these proceeded well beyond environmental constraints and were characterized by "major differences in the subjects which enthralled people," whether these were cattle, initiations and social position, or "the splendors of sacralized leaders and the possibilities of participating in them.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813934184

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9780813934181

Subtitling Norms for Television

An exploration focussing on extralinguistic cultural references

By: Jan Pedersen

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Subtitling Norms for Television

An exploration focussing on extralinguistic cultural references

By: Jan Pedersen

In most subtitling countries, those lines at the bottom of the screen are the most read medium of all, for which reason they deserve all the academic attention they can get. This monograph represents a large-scale attempt to provide such attention, by exploring the norms of subtitling for television. It does so by empirically investigating a large corpus of television subtitles from Scandinavia, one of the bastions of subtitling, along with other European data. The aim of the book is twofold: first, to provide an advanced and comprehensive model for investigating translation problems in the form of Extralinguistic Cultural References (ECRs). Second, to empirically explore current European television subtitling norms, and to look into future developments in this area. This book will be of interest to anyone interested in gaining access to state-of-the-art tools for translation analysis, or in learning more about the norms of subtitling, based on empirically reliable and current material.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027283923

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9789027283924

Defending the Ypres Front, 1914–1918

Trenches, Shelters & Bunkers of the German Army

By: Jan Vancoillie,Kristof Blieck

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Trenches, Shelters & Bunkers of the German Army

By: Jan Vancoillie,Kristof Blieck

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Jan Yoors, 1922-1977

By: Jan Yoors,Jeannine J. Falino,Elsje Janssen,Sergio Servellón

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Jan Yoors, 1922-1977

By: Jan Yoors,Jeannine J. Falino,Elsje Janssen,Sergio Servellón

Naar aanleiding van de retrospectieve tentoonstelling 'Jan Yoors' in het FeliXart Museum, wordt een publicatie uitgebracht door het FeliXart Museum en Pandora Publishers. Het boek is niet louter een tentoonstellingscatalogus, maar is vooral een omvangrijk referentiewerk over Jan Yoors, bestaande enerzijds uit een overzicht van maar liest 140 wandtapijten, gouaches, tekeningen en foto's, en anderzijds uit wetenschappelijke artikels van specialisten van de moderne tapijtweefkunst en van het modernisme. Alle bijdragen zijn geïllustreerd met foto's en archiefdocumenten. 0Exhibition: FeliXart Museum, Drogenbos, Belgium (28.10.2012-24.2.2013). 0.

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9053253432

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Book's by Jan Vancoillie

The Compelling Ideal

The Compelling Ideal

Defending the Ypres Front, 1914–1918

Defending the Ypres Front, 1914–1918

How Societies Are Born

How Societies Are Born

Subtitling Norms for Television

Subtitling Norms for Television

Defending the Ypres Front, 1914–1918

Defending the Ypres Front, 1914–1918

Jan Yoors, 1922-1977

Jan Yoors, 1922-1977

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