| Description |
1 online resource (543 pages) |
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In |
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian In
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| Contents |
Cover; Half title; Studies of The Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: Lived Space; 1: Through the Walls: Everyday Life in the University; 2: Untrained Bodies and Frugal Habits; PART II: Intellectual Space; 3: The Displacement of Learning; PART III: Political Space; 4: Learning Politics; 5: Improper Places; PART IV: Social Space; 6: Between Streets and Monuments; 7: The Pedagogy of the City; Epilogue; 8: The End of Students?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Selected Titles |
| Summary |
On Sunday, May 4, 1919, thousands of students protested the Versailles treaty in Beijing. Seventy years later, another generation demonstrated in Tiananmen Square; climbing the Monument of the People's Heroes, these protestors stood against a relief of their predecessors, and merged with their own mythology while consciously deploying their activism. Through an investigation of twentieth-century Chinese student protest, Fabio Lanza considers the marriage of the cultural and the political, the intellectual and the quotidian, that occurred during the May Fourth movement, along with its r |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Beijing da xue -- Students -- Political activity
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Beijing da xue -- History -- 20th century
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| SUBJECT |
Beijing da xue fast |
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Higher education and state -- China -- History -- 20th century
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Higher education and state
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Students -- Political activity
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010000346 |
| ISBN |
9780231526289 |
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0231526288 |
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