The career of a warlord: Wu P'ei-fu, 1916-1927

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Étude et connaissance des religions autochtones au Québec : un bilan historique

While Natives’ religious traditions have been gaining significant visibility in North America in recent years, non-Native knowledge of indigenous religions has not been progressing at the same pace despite a notable increase in the number of scholarly studies undertaken over the last few decades. An analysis of 500 such studies of Native religions of Quebec produced over a period of more than a century and a half (1850 to 2003) generates the first profile to date of the nature and development of these studies and offers explanations regarding the disparities between the growing empirical and analytical data and the state of général knowledge about native religions which appears to be stagnating

Communist Revolution and Peasant Mobilisation in the Hinterland of North China: The Early Years

This chapter examines the depiction by populism in the domain of 'popular culture' of what purports to be its non-capitalist/non-socialist alternative: in short, the socio-economic and political structure of its 'imaginary' as this involves a symptomatic opposition between the utopic and dystopic. Using the pseudonym of Ivan Kremnev, the Russian neo-populist theoretician A. V. Chayanov wrote the utopian fiction The Journey of My Brother Alexei to the Land of Peasant Utopia. Accordingly, the utopic vision of Chayanov entails traversing time but not space; the protagonists in his narrative are projected forward into a future within the same demarcated space. Much of the populist discourse which structures the agrarian myth is present in the films of Frank Capra, who directed not only Lost Horizon but also Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and t's a Wonderful Life (1946)