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The Path to Sun Village

2017-07-10 Social Science
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Release : 2017-07-10
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Book Synopsis The Path to Sun Village by : Chongqing Wu

Download or read book The Path to Sun Village written by Chongqing Wu. This book was released on 2017-07-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a product of over ten years of work. It addresses intermarriage circles, transformations of customs, the rise and fall supernatural forces, power relations among gods, ghosts and people in “synchronic communities,” and tongxiangtongye (same hometown, same industry) economies based on rural sociocultural networks in the author’s native Sun Village in Putian. The author explores the details of microhistory by examining changes and continuities in everyday life to show the grand through the minute. This exciting book possesses important theoretical significance, including reflections on binary frameworks such as state vs. society and tradition vs. modernity or revolution, along with new arguments about commonly used concepts such as “the cultural nexus of power” and “the hollowing-out of the rural.”

The Path to Sun Village

2017 Social Science
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Release : 2017
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Path to Sun Village by : Chongqing Wu

Download or read book The Path to Sun Village written by Chongqing Wu. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting book is a product of over ten years of work of the author's native village. From beginning to end it enters dialogue with a variety of domestic and overseas scholarship, providing new empirical data and many surprising discoveries.

The Story of a Sun Village

2019-08-21 Fiction
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Release : 2019-08-21
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Story of a Sun Village by : Çetin Göksu

Download or read book The Story of a Sun Village written by Çetin Göksu. This book was released on 2019-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Güneş, Gök, Doğa, Su and Ay, a group of five young graduates fresh out of university, who have reunited in their out-of-the-way Anatolian village high in the Caucuses, set out on an adventure that will change not only their lives but that of their rural community, for ever. On a journey that takes them into the remote forests and mountains above their quiet Anatolian home, they confront many challenges and quite a few scary moments before finally arriving at the Mysterious Garden of the Sun. While there, they meet some extraordinary characters who teach them about all about a lost civilisation that enables people to live in harmony with nature and the ancient Anatolian philosophy of the sun… a way of life that their country has virtually forgotten…

Skiing Sun Valley: A History from Union Pacific to the Holdings

2020 History
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Release : 2020
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Skiing Sun Valley: A History from Union Pacific to the Holdings by : John W. Lundin

Download or read book Skiing Sun Valley: A History from Union Pacific to the Holdings written by John W. Lundin. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Union Pacific Railroad's Averell Harriman had a bold vision to restore rail passenger traffic decimated by the Great Depression: create ski tourism in Idaho's remote Wood River Valley. A $1.5 million investment opened Sun Valley in December 1936 with a lavish lodge, luxury shopping, Austrian ski instructors and extensive backcountry skiing. Prestigious tournaments featured the world's best skiers. Chairlifts invented by Union Pacific engineers serviced skiers quickly and comfortably. Ski instructor and filmmaker Otto Lang recalled that seemingly overnight, it became "a magnet for the 'beautiful people,' a meeting place for movie stars and moguls, chairmen and captains of industry, Greek shipping tycoons, and peripatetic playboys--and playgirls--of the international social set." After World War II and Harriman's departure, Union Pacific's willingness to pay the $500,000 yearly subsidy waned. Bill Janss purchased it in 1964 and reimagined it as a year-round resort but lacked the capital for growth. Sinclair Oil owners Earl and Carol Holding acquired it in 1977, revitalizing it into a premier resort with international status. Award-winning ski historian John W. Lundin celebrates America's first destination ski resort using unpublished Union Pacific documents, oral histories, contemporaneous accounts and more than 150 historic images.

Two-Dimensional People

2022-12-30 Social Science
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Release : 2022-12-30
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Book Synopsis Two-Dimensional People by : Tan Tongxue

Download or read book Two-Dimensional People written by Tan Tongxue. This book was released on 2022-12-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on almost eight years of fieldwork in a town and a village in South China, this book analyzes contradictions among various dimensions of the peasant economy, social relationships, popular religion, and local politics in rural China. Compared to many anthropological, sociological, and political studies of rural China, which regard Chinese peasants as one-dimensionally materialistic, politically conservative, egocentric (lacking public-mindedness, as in anthropologist Yan Yunxiang’s notion of the "uncivil individual"), with collapsed beliefs, and thinking only of the present (or the "today-ness of today" according to anthropologist Liu Xin), this book shows that people in contemporary rural China are actually "two-dimensional": trying to combine the calculation of self-interest with affective networks of reciprocity, but often falling into awkwardness or cynicism, in a paradoxical symbiosis between nihilism and transcendence. While Marcuse used the words of Benjamin to analyze "one-dimensional man," writing "Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope," this book writes of two-dimensional people, "Only when the vast majority of ordinary people can find hope in everyday life can we finally be given hope!" This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Sociology, Anthropology and East Asian Studies. It will also be a great read to those who are interested in contemporary China in general.

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