For those who are tired of religion and long to see the kingdom of God manifest, then this is the book for you. Straight from the pews as a layman, I longed to see change not only in my life but in the lives of those around me and in my city. I had witnessed so many lives battered and wounded, and I seemed powerless to do anything. I became restless with my mediocre faith and realized that there had to be more. I wanted more, and I was going to have more. But the question was, would I be prepared to fight to see the kingdom of God and all it represents manifested in my everyday life? There is a battle raging in the spirit realm for the souls of humankind. The battle lines have been drawn, but God is awakening a generation that will learn how to war. Their battle cry will echo into eternity as they boldly declare, Thy kingdom come! They will be known as the warring generation. They are prepared to contend to initiate change in their different areas of influence. They refuse to turn a blind eye toward the problems that plague people and society as a whole. So they choose the road less traveled and make a relentless stand for righteousness. They dare to believe for the manifestation of Gods kingdom in their lives, families, workplaces, schools, churches, cities, and nations. They are everyday people, most of whom are nameless and faceless but are a force to reckon with. They are the warring generation. Will you be part of this generation? Discover how you can awaken the warrior within you and make an indelible mark in your world as you read this book.

Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a political mythology that encouraged violence as a way to prove one's revolutionary credentials. This same competitive dynamic would later turn the Red Guard against the communist government. Throughout the 1970s, the majority of Red Guard youth were sent to work in rural villages, where they developed an appreciation for the values of ordinary life. From this experience, an underground cultural movement was born. Rejecting idolatry, these relocated revolutionaries developed a new form of resistance that signaled a new era of enlightenment, culminating in the Democracy Wall movement of the late 1970s and the Tiananmen protest of 1989. Yang's final chapter on the politics of history and memory argues that contemporary memories of the Cultural Revolution are factionalized along these lines of political division, formed fifty years before.

The seven great states of the Warring States Era stood at attention. Each state had the ambition to swallow up the sea, the whole world, and all directions. In troubled times, evils would arise, and when heroes emerged, the protagonist of this book would rise to prominence in the Warring States Era!

In treating the topic of the landscapes of stylistics, this book provides a series of chapters which deal not only with physical landscapes but also with social, mental, historical portraits of places, people and society. The chapters demonstrate that all texts project a worldview, even when the content appears to be only a physical description of the external world. The implication is that texts attempt to produce specific effects on the reader determined by the author’s worldview. Contents and effects, (namely mental and emotional states, behaviours), are thus inseparable. Identifying those effects and how they are produced is an eminently cognitive operation. The chapters analyse a variety of linguistic devices and cognitive mechanisms employed in producing the text and accounting for the effects achieved. Though the majority of the chapters have a cognitive basis, a wide range of methodologies are employed, including ecostylistics, offering cutting-edge theoretical approaches teamed up with close reading. A further crucial feature of this collection is the selection of non-canonical texts, ranging from lesser-known texts in English to significant works in languages other than English, all of which are characterised by important social themes, thus emphasising the importance of critical appreciation as a means of self-empowerment.

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