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Screen Media and the Construction of Nostalgia in Post-Socialist China

By: Zhun Gu

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Screen Media and the Construction of Nostalgia in Post-Socialist China

By: Zhun Gu

This book traces the cultural transformation of nostalgia on the Chinese screen over the past three decades. It explores how filmmakers from different generations have engaged politically with China’s rapidly changing post-socialist society as it has been formed through three mutually constitutive frameworks: political discourse, popular culture and state-led media commercialisation. The book offers a new, critical model for understanding relationships between filmmakers, industry and the State.

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Springer Nature

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9811974942

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From Commune to Capitalism

How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty

By: Zhun Xu

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From Commune to Capitalism

How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty

By: Zhun Xu

An account of China's transition into a global capitalist economy, as agrarian reform in the 1980s led Chinese peasants to industrial cities and into poverty In the early 1980s, China undertook a massive reform that dismantled its socialist rural collectives and divided the land among millions of small peasant families. Known as the decollectivization campaign, it is one of the most significant reforms in China's transition to a market economy. From the beginning, the official Chinese accounts, and many academic writings, uncritically portray this campaign as a huge success, both for the peasants and the economy as a whole. This mainstream history argues that the rural communes, suffering from inefficiency, greatly improved agricultural productivity under the decollectivization reform. It also describes how the peasants, due to their dissatisfaction with the rural regime, spontaneously organized and collectively dismantled the collective system. A closer examination suggests a much different and more nuanced story. By combining historical archives, field work, and critical statistical examinations, From Commune to Capitalism argues that the decollectivization campaign was neither a bottom-up, spontaneous peasant movement, nor necessarily efficiency-improving. On the contrary, the reform was mainly a top-down, coercive campaign, and most of the efficiency gains came from simply increasing the usage of inputs, such as land and labor, rather than institutional changes. The book also asks an important question: Why did most of the peasants peacefully accept this reform? Zhun Xu answers that the problems of the communes contributed to the passiveness of the peasantry; that decollectivization, by depoliticizing the peasantry and freeing massive rural labor to compete with the urban workers, served as both the political and economic basis for consequent Chinese neoliberal reforms and a massive increase in all forms of economic, political, and social inequality. Decollectivization was, indeed, a huge success, although far from the sort suggested by mainstream accounts.

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NYU Press

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1583677003

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9781583677001

Natural Products

Essential Resources for Human Survival

By: Yi-Zhun Zhu

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Natural Products

Essential Resources for Human Survival

By: Yi-Zhun Zhu

Phytonutrients - The natural drugs of the future -- Research on the supercritical CO, extraction of Xinyang MaoJian tea -- Applications of RNAi technology -- Enhancing bioactive molecules in medicinal plants -- Biotransformation of taxanes from cell cultures of Taxus sp -- Biotransformation of terpenes and steroids by fungi -- Rapid analysis of triterpenoid saponins in plant extract Using ESI-MSn and LC-MSn -- HPLC-MS Analysis of phenolic constituents of PhyZZanthus Amarus -- Structure elucidation of norditerpene alkaloids from Ranunculaceae species -- Quantitative detection of isoflavones in the extract of Red Clover by HPLC/ESI-MS -- Measurement of bioactive constituents in traditional chinese medicines by CE with electrochemical detection -- Chemical constituents of Aegiceras corniculatum -- Norditerpenoids from the soft coral Nephthea chabroli -- The metabolites of the mangrove fungus Xylaria sp (2508) -- Phytochemical evaluation of polyherbal formulations using HPTLC -- Application of chromatographic fingerprint to quality control for Clematis chinensis -- The bioactive pigments from marine bacteria Pseudomonas sp -- Bioactive natural products from marine sponges -- Anti-inflammatory and neurotrophic alkaloids fi-om higher plants and fungi -- Effects of bovine kidney heparan sulphate and shark cartilage Chondroitin-6-Sulphate on palatal fibroblast activities -- Effects of the cultured Cordyceps Exopolysaccharide fraction (Epsf) on some parameters of mouse immune function In Evo and In Etro -- Lactobacillus rhamnosus induces differential anti-proliferative responses and Interleulun-6 expression levels in SV-40 and malignant uroepithelial cells -- Cruciferous vegetables and chemoprotection - A role of ITC-mediated apoptosis -- Tanshinone I and Tanshinone IIA from Salvia Miltiorrhiza inhibit growth of K1735M2 murine melanoma Cells via different pathways -- New pesticidal compounds from limonoids -- Insecticidal properties of Anacardiurn Occidentale L. -- Antibacterial effect of extracts from persimmon leaves -- Protective effect of crocin on rat heart Ischemia-Reperfusion injury: Possible mechanisms -- Protective effects of Herba Leonuri in Ischemic models -- The prophylactic effects of chinese herbal extract, Braintone, on stroked Wistar rats -- Therapeutic applications of Ceylon tea: Potential and trends -- Effects of green and black tea on glucose tolerance, serum insulin antioxidant enzyme levels in Streptozotocin-induced diabetes rats -- St John's Wort: A precious gift from the saints? -- From medicine man to market: A look at natural products and the pharmaceutical industries

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World Scientific

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9812707441

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Videolised Society

By: Jian Meng,Hui Zhao

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Videolised Society

By: Jian Meng,Hui Zhao

This book traces the development of video (especially short video, duan shipin) in China over the past few years, exploring how these videos engaged with China’s rapidly changing society, how they enriched existed theories of society, media and communication, and new theories to be extracted. The book offers a new, critical model for understanding the relationship between video, video theory, video industry and the State. This book sheds light on the overall description and explanation of the current socio-political, economic and cultural environment concerning the development of video (especially short video). It interprets the emergence of the “Social Videolization” through the subjects of media psychology, communication studies and cultural criticism, media industrial studies, sociology and anthropology.

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Springer Nature

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9819964199

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