Visions for the Masses

Visions for the Masses
Title Visions for the Masses PDF eBook
Author Fan-Pen Li Chen
Publisher Cornell East Asia Series
Pages 292
Release 2004
Genre Drama
ISBN

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This collection of Chinese shadow plays contains seven selected traditional shadow plays from the Qing and early Republican periods from Shaanxi and Shanxi. A minor operatic genre, the Chinese shadow theatre provides one of the best avenues for examining the mentality and sense of humor of the silent masses. Although Shaanxi sports the largest number of shadow traditions in China and is where the art form is most vibrant, its shadow plays have never before been published in either Chinese or English. Translated from rare hand-copied play scripts, this volume includes the most literary and refined plays of the genre as well as coarser popular plays and farcical Post-midnight skits. It also features a survey of the state of the shadow theatre in contemporary China, extensive critical introductions and bibliography.

Consuming Visions

Consuming Visions
Title Consuming Visions PDF eBook
Author Suzanne K. Kaufman
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 264
Release 2018-09-05
Genre History
ISBN 1501727354

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Plastic Madonnas, packaged holy tours, and biblical theme parks can arouse discomfort, laughter, and even revulsion in religious believers and nonbelievers alike. Scholars, too, often see the intermingling of religion and commerce as a corruption of true spirituality. Suzanne K. Kaufman challenges these assumptions in her examination of the Lourdes pilgrimage in late nineteenth-century France.Consuming Visions offers new ways to interpret material forms of worship, female piety, and modern commercial culture. Kaufman argues that the melding of traditional pilgrimage activities with a newly developing mass culture produced fresh expressions of popular faith. For the devout women of humble origins who flocked to the shrine, this intensely exciting commercialized worship offered unprecedented opportunities to connect with the sacred and express their faith in God.New devotional activities at Lourdes transformed the act of pilgrimage: the train became a moving chapel, and popular entertainments such as wax museums offered vivid recreations of visionary events. Using the press and the strategies of a new advertising industry to bring a mass audience to Lourdes, Church authorities remade centuries-old practices of miraculous healing into a modern public spectacle. These innovations made Lourdes one of the most visited holy sites in Catholic Europe.Yet mass pilgrimage also created problems. The development of Lourdes, while making religious practice more democratically accessible, touched off fierce conflicts over the rituals and entertainments provided by the shrine. These conflicts between believers and secularists played out in press scandals across the European continent. By taking the shrine seriously as a site of mass culture, Kaufman not only breaks down the opposition between sacred and profane but also deepens our understanding of commercialized religion as a fundamental feature of modernity itself.

Storm of Visions

Storm of Visions
Title Storm of Visions PDF eBook
Author Christina Dodd
Publisher Penguin
Pages 222
Release 2009-08-04
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1101105305

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First in a new back-to- back series from the New York Times bestselling author Hailed as "a star in any genre,"(New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward) Christina Dodd delivers an exciting new paranormal romance that introduces The Seven, a secret society created to combat evil in all its deadly forms...

Constitutive Visions

Constitutive Visions
Title Constitutive Visions PDF eBook
Author Christa J. Olson
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 305
Release 2013-11-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0271063637

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In Constitutive Visions, Christa Olson presents the rhetorical history of republican Ecuador as punctuated by repeated arguments over national identity. Those arguments—as they advanced theories of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and republican modernity—struggled to reconcile the presence of Ecuador’s large indigenous population with the dominance of a white-mestizo minority. Even as indigenous people were excluded from civic life, images of them proliferated in speeches, periodicals, and artworks during Ecuador’s long process of nation formation. Tracing how that contradiction illuminates the textures of national-identity formation, Constitutive Visions places petitions from indigenous laborers alongside oil paintings, overlays woodblock illustrations with legislative debates, and analyzes Ecuador’s nineteen constitutions in light of landscape painting. Taken together, these juxtapositions make sense of the contradictions that sustained and unsettled the postcolonial nation-state.

Vision For The World: Eye Surgeons' Solution To Mass Blindness — A Major World Medical Problem

Vision For The World: Eye Surgeons' Solution To Mass Blindness — A Major World Medical Problem
Title Vision For The World: Eye Surgeons' Solution To Mass Blindness — A Major World Medical Problem PDF eBook
Author Arthur S M Lim
Publisher World Scientific
Pages 96
Release 1996-06-01
Genre Medical
ISBN 9814518174

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The problem of mass blindness today stems largely from cataract which accounts for a total of 40 million cataract victims in the world — and it will worsen with the ageing population. Fortunately, this problem can be resolved with cost effective extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) and posterior chamber implantation (PCI).This book highlights how the use of ECCE and PCI can restore normal vision to cataract victims around the world.A successful approach is to establish training centres. The success of the International Intraocular Implant Training Centre (IIITC) in the Peoples' Republic of China is cited to show that implant surgery for cataracts can be successfully performed in communities in developing nations in Asia with appropriate training and supervision. The centre has since yielded excellent results with cost effective ECCE and PCI. The book challenges eye surgeons around the world to unite to address a global need to contain world cataract blindness.

Talking Visions

Talking Visions
Title Talking Visions PDF eBook
Author Ella Shohat
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 606
Release 2001
Genre Art
ISBN 9780262692618

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This multivoiced collection of essays and images presents a "relational" feminism of diverse communities, affiliations, and practices.

Navajo Sovereignty

Navajo Sovereignty
Title Navajo Sovereignty PDF eBook
Author Lloyd L. Lee
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 217
Release 2017-04-11
Genre History
ISBN 081653408X

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A companion to Diné Perspectives: Revitalizing and Reclaiming Navajo Thought, each chapter of Navajo Sovereignty offers the contributors' individual perspectives. This book discusses Western law's view of Diné sovereignty, research, activism, creativity, and community, and Navajo sovereignty in traditional education. Above all, Lloyd L. Lee and the contributing scholars and community members call for the rethinking of Navajo sovereignty in a way more rooted in Navajo beliefs, culture, and values.