The first comprehensive study of Chinese popular music in a Western language. Drawing on extensive interviews with singers, songwriters and critics, as well as cultural, sociological, musical, and textual analysis, the book portrays the disparate ways in which China's state-run popular music industry and burgeoning underground rock music subculture represented by Cui Jian have ...(展开全部)

This unusual and interesting book is a fascinating account of the world of Chinese writing. It examines Chinese space and the political and social use of writing as propaganda, a publicity booster and as a ladder for social climbing.

Non-academic history - 'public history' - is a complex, dynamic entity which impacts on the popular understanding of the past at all levels. In "Consuming History", Jerome de Groot examines how society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. This book analyses a wide range of cultural entities -...(展开全部)

主编简介： 李娜，维也纳大学公众史学中心研究员,《公众史学》主编，主要研究领域为公众史学、城市历史保护。著有Kensington Market: Collective Memory, Public History, and Toronto’s Urban Landscape，University of Toronto Press，2015；《集体记忆、公众历史与城市景观》，上海三联书店，2017年；《公众史学研究入门》，北京大学出版社，2019年；Seeing History: Public History in China，De Gruyter，2023。研究成果刊登于The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning、The Public Historian等出版物。 作者简介： 杰罗姆·德·格鲁特（Jerome de G...(展开全部)

主编简介： 李娜，维也纳大学公众史学中心研究员,《公众史学》主编，主要研究领域为公众史学、城市历史保护。著有Kensington Market: Collective Memory, Public History, and Toronto’s Urban Landscape，University of Toronto Press，2015；《集体记忆、公众历史与城市景观》，上海三联书店，2017年；《公众史学研究入门》，北京大学出版社，2019年；Seeing History: Public History in China，De Gruyter，2023。研究成果刊登于The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning、The Public Historian等出版物。 作者简介： 杰罗姆·德·格鲁特（Jerome de G...(展开全部)

Cover -- Consuming History -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I The popular historian -- ‘Public’ history -- 1 The public historian, the historian in public -- 2 Popular history in print -- 3 The historian in popular culture -- Part II Enfranchisement, ownership and consumption -- Serious leisure and enfranchisement -- 4 The everyday historical ...(展开全部)

As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies many categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is 'traditional,' why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? If, as some claim, it is a science, what does that imply about what we call science? What is the secret to C...(展开全部)

An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance, and pop Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, charting the way...(展开全部)

丹尼尔·巴伦博伊姆（Daniel Barenboim，1942～），以色列钢琴家、指挥家。1942年11月15日生于阿根廷的布宜诺斯艾利斯。7岁登台演出。曾随E.菲舍尔、I.马克耶维奇、N.布朗热学钢琴、指挥与作曲。1956年以皇家爱乐乐团独奏家的身份在英国首次公演。1957年1月，在斯托科夫斯基指挥下，于卡内基大厅演出普罗科菲耶夫的《第一钢琴协奏曲》。此后，进行了一系列的巡回演出，获得世界声誉。1962年起从事指挥，1964～1975年担任英国室内乐团指挥，1975～1989年转任巴黎管弦乐队指挥，1991年至2004年担任芝加哥交响乐团首席指挥，1992年任柏林国家歌剧院音乐指导。曾先后指挥过柏林爱乐乐团、以色列爱乐乐团、费城管弦乐团、纽约爱乐乐团、伦敦交响乐团、英国室内乐团等。 曲目涉猎广泛。作为钢琴家，尤擅演奏贝多芬、莫扎特作品，以浪漫热情服...(展开全部)

During the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the censorious attitude that characterized China's post-1989 official response to contemporary art gave way to a new market-driven, culture industry valuation of art. Experimental artists who once struggled against state regulation of artistic expression found themselves being courted to advance China's international image. In Ex...(展开全部)