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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Cultural Revolution"”.
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Wounds in time: the aesthetic afterlives of the Cultural Revolution
… “Wounds in Time: the Aesthetic Afterlives of the Cultural Revolution,” departs from the traditional historicist approach to the Cultural Revolution, contributing instead an investigation of the Cultural Revolution through its aesthetic afterlives. This study crosses disciplines and seeks to grasp …
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Agricultural development and peasant behavior in China during the cultural revolution
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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The Hard Road to Renewal: Media Representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
In this thesis, I aim to explore how the Chinese Cultural Revolution has been represented in the media, mainly in films and television dramas, from the 1980s to the early 2010s. Drawing upon textual analysis, conjunctural analysis and the concept of articulation, I examine how the historical past …
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A historical study on the "eight revolutionary model operas" in China's Great Cultural Revolution
During the Great Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) eight revolutionary model operas were popularized as a means of transformation the ideology and values of the Chinese people as well as a political tool in struggle between the Maoists and Luists. When Mao realized that his ideals were being …
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Holding up half the sky: revisiting "woman" messages in Model Plays during China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of China (the Cultural Revolution)from 1966 to 1976 is considered an unprecedented political and social upheaval in Chinese modern history. Model Plays were produced as the core of the Cultural Revolutionary propaganda in an effort to promote a new …
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(What is not written on) The Wall : a choreographic exploration of censorship and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
… for the manner in which it serves as a critical cultural intervention to the longstanding system of revision rather than preservation of Chinese cultural history particularly in the 20th and 21st centuries. To conduct my research, I studied articles written by Chinese scholars and artists living …
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On the(re)emergence of cultural revolution imagery in China, Hong Kong and Singapore in the 21st century
This thesis interrogates the (re)emergence of Cultural Revolution imagery in the 21st century as a cultural lens through which contemporary contradictory relations between China, Hong Kong and Singapore are revealed. Between the late 1990s and throughout the 2000s, a number of images originating …
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The state and university: The ''Islamic Cultural Revolution'' in the institutions of higher education of Iran, 1980-1987
The thesis is a study of the Islamic Cultural Revolution initiated by the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1981 in order to Islamize the institutions of higher education. Data are based on official documents, participant observation, interviews and press reports.
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Visualising Lung Disease in Modern China: Body, Nation, and Environment from the Nanjing Decade to the Cultural Revolution
Respiratory pathologies were major causes of death and disease in twentieth-century China. This thesis analyses lung disease in public health images from the advent of national public health services in the Republic of China in the 1920s, to the official recognition of the People’s Republic of …
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Youths of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: A Study on Early Life Sent-down Experience and Later Life Health
… during the quasi-experiment of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (CR, 1966-1976), which led to the temporary shut-down of the national educational system and approximately 17 million urban youths being “sent-down” to do manual labour in rural China. I use data from the 2010 China Family Panel …
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The relationship between the exercise of political power and language during the cultural revolution in Inner Mongolia - 1967-1969
… and the exercise of power and authority from the Cultural Revolution in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China from 1967 to 1969. It is based on analytic methods found in the works of Foucault, Bourdieu, Gramsci and others. The material analysed falls into four …
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Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and the Bureaucracy
… movements in China from 1949 to the Cultural Revolution are examined, comparing Mao's and Zhou's position on the role of the bureaucracy in China's development.
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SINO–LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS: 1959–1976
… unofficial trade relations, spurred by the Cuban Revolution and Sino–Soviet Split. The Cultural Revolution in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) interrupted the development of Sino–Latin American relations during the late 1960s. The development of Sino–Latin American ties resumed in earnest in …
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Music to move the masses : protest music of the 1980s as a facilitator for social change in South Africa
… the 1980s was able to contribute to the greater cultural revolution of the era by providing a medium through which South Africans could formulate a new collective identity. In this regard it is important to note that the term ‘protest music,’ as applied throughout this research project, refers to …
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Theoretical and Applied Essays on the Instrumental Variable Method
… of Iranians was delayed or cut short by the Cultural Revolution. Therefore, the Cultural Revolution, as an exogenous shock to the supply of education, establishes the year of birth as the exogenous and relevant instrument for education. Using the standard Mincerian earnings function with …
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Inventário do caos: Rogério Duarte, Tropicália e pós-modernidade
Tropicália was a Brazilian cultural revolution in the 1960s that operated in various artistic fronts including cinema, music, photography, theatre, and design. Although Rogério Duarte was one of the principal mentors of Tropicália—having acted as a theoretician and as an artist—and was, along with …
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Narrative Fidelity to the Little Red Book in the Collective Action Framing Efforts of the Red Guard Movement: A Theoretical Model for Foundational Documents
The contribution of this thesis is to the cultural paradigm in social movement theory. I am interested in how texts matter to social movements. I present a novel synthesis of concepts I use to uncover ideological elements in texts. I argue that foundational documents influence frame presentations, …
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The "sent-down" vision: poetics and politics of Zhiqing literature in post-Mao China
… countryside” to settle as peasants during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). Following their return to the cities in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, many zhiqing writers have been focusing on their village experiences, traditional literary forms, and ethnic minorities relevant to their …
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From the Frontline to the Picket Line: Public History and the Cultural Labor Revolution
… labor and collective organizing throughout the cultural sector. Yet while those at the forefront of these conversations hope to leverage this moment into a cohesive movement, cultural labor activism has manifested in different ways throughout the cultural sector. This thesis seeks to understand …
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Essays on the effects of parental education and private tutoring on children's education outcomes, and the rural-urban student achievement differential in China
… uses school interruption during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (CR) as an instrument. The Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) significantly interrupted one generation's education, but has had no direct effect on the next generation. It naturally provides a valid instrument. The empirical …
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