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Book Never Forget National Humiliation

Download or read book Never Forget National Humiliation written by Zheng Wang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not only survive but even thrive, regaining the support of many Chinese citizens after the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989? Why has popular sentiment turned toward anti-Western nationalism despite the anti-dictatorship democratic movements of the 1980s? And why has China been more assertive toward the United States and Japan in foreign policy but relatively conciliatory toward smaller countries in conflict? Offering an explanation for these unexpected trends, Zheng Wang follows the Communist governmentÕs ideological reeducation of the public, which relentlessly portrays China as the victim of foreign imperialist bullying during Òone hundred years of humiliation.Ó By concentrating on the telling and teaching of history in todayÕs China, Wang illuminates the thinking of the young patriots who will lead this rising power in the twenty-first century. Wang visits ChinaÕs primary schools and memory sites and reads its history textbooks, arguing that ChinaÕs rise should not be viewed through a single lens, such as economics or military growth, but from a more comprehensive perspective that takes national identity and domestic discourse into account. Since it is the prime raw material for constructing ChinaÕs national identity, historical memory is the key to unlocking the inner mystery of the Chinese. From this vantage point, Wang tracks the CCPÕs use of history education to glorify the party, reestablish its legitimacy, consolidate national identity, and justify one-party rule in the post-Tiananmen and postÐCold War era. The institutionalization of this manipulated historical consciousness now directs political discourse and foreign policy, and Wang demonstrates its important role in ChinaÕs rise.

Book The Politics of Humiliation

Download or read book The Politics of Humiliation written by Ute Frevert and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how humiliation has been used as a means of coercion and control in the modern age - from the shaving of the heads of alleged women collaborators in occupied France to the social media pillorying of the 21st century.

Book Abraham Lincoln s Speeches

Download or read book Abraham Lincoln s Speeches written by Abraham Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Humiliation

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Ian Miller
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780801481178
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Humiliation written by William Ian Miller and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In an illuminating and darkly intelligent study, William Miller...has revealed...humiliation as the closet dominatrix she is, an emotion whose power to discipline us makes the world go round...Miller makes his pages blaze and roar...by throwing another handful of hollow complacencies upon the fire....The five essays making up this book...are about the persistence of the norm of reciprocity in our daily lives, about the ways in which shame and envy and especially humiliation sustain 'cultures of honor' to this day.'-Speculum

Book Causes for National Humiliation  a discourse  on Ps  iv  5  delivered on the day of Fasting  Humiliation and Prayer  recommended by the President of the United States  September 26  1861

Download or read book Causes for National Humiliation a discourse on Ps iv 5 delivered on the day of Fasting Humiliation and Prayer recommended by the President of the United States September 26 1861 written by R. L. Stanton and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A sermon preached on     the Day of Public Humiliation and Prayer  etc

Download or read book A sermon preached on the Day of Public Humiliation and Prayer etc written by William Rollinson WHITTINGHAM (Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Maryland.) and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lincoln in American Memory

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  • Author : Merrill D. Peterson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1995-06-01
  • ISBN : 0198023049
  • Pages : 493 pages

Download or read book Lincoln in American Memory written by Merrill D. Peterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lincoln's death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions. When the president was struck down at his moment of triumph, writes Merrill Peterson, "sorrow--indescribable sorrow" swept the nation. After lying in state in Washington, Lincoln's body was carried by a special funeral train to Springfield, Illinois, stopping in major cities along the way; perhaps a million people viewed the remains as memorial orations rang out and the world chorused its sincere condolences. It was the apotheosis of the martyred President--the beginning of the transformation of a man into a mythic hero. In Lincoln in American Memory, historian Merrill Peterson provides a fascinating history of Lincoln's place in the American imagination from the hour of his death to the present. In tracing the changing image of Lincoln through time, this wide-ranging account offers insight into the evolution and struggles of American politics and society--and into the character of Lincoln himself. Westerners, Easterners, even Southerners were caught up in the idealization of the late President, reshaping his memory and laying claim to his mantle, as his widow, son, memorial builders, and memorabilia collectors fought over his visible legacy. Peterson also looks at the complex responses of blacks to the memory of Lincoln, as they moved from exultation at the end of slavery to the harsh reality of free life amid deep poverty and segregation; at more than one memorial event for the great emancipator, the author notes, blacks were excluded. He makes an engaging examination of the flood of reminiscences and biographies, from Lincoln's old law partner William H. Herndon to Carl Sandburg and beyond. Serious historians were late in coming to the topic; for decades the myth-makers sought to shape the image of the hero President to suit their own agendas. He was made a voice of prohibition, a saloon-keeper, an infidel, a devout Christian, the first Bull Moose Progressive, a military blunderer and (after the First World War) a military genius, a white supremacist (according to D.W. Griffith and other Southern admirers), and a touchstone for the civil rights movement. Through it all, Peterson traces five principal images of Lincoln: the savior of the Union, the great emancipator, man of the people, first American, and self-made man. In identifying these archetypes, he tells us much not only of Lincoln but of our own identity as a people.

Book Humiliation

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  • Author : Wayne Koestenbaum
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011-11
  • ISBN : 9781907903465
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book Humiliation written by Wayne Koestenbaum and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shame and Humiliation

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  • Author : Blema S. Steinberg
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780773513921
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Shame and Humiliation written by Blema S. Steinberg and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blema Steinberg adopts a psychoanalytical approach in her examination of the decision making of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Dwight Eisenhower during the Vietnam War. She argues that personality traits, such as narcissism, influenced critical decisions they made about U.S. intervention in Vietnam.

Book Day of humiliation on account of the Cholera     Mercy rejoiceth against Judgment     A sermon  on James ii  13  preached     in aid of the Cheltenham Orphan Asylum  etc

Download or read book Day of humiliation on account of the Cholera Mercy rejoiceth against Judgment A sermon on James ii 13 preached in aid of the Cheltenham Orphan Asylum etc written by Francis Duncan GILBY and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Humiliation of the Word

Download or read book The Humiliation of the Word written by Jacques Ellul and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Western people no longer hear; everything is grasped by sight. They no longer speak; they show.” -- Jacques Ellul Well-known for his many books on sociology and theology, Jacques Ellul creatively braids these two strands together in this provocative examination of how reality (which is visual) has superseded truth (which is verbal) in modern times. Ellul explores biblical texts for distinguishing visual cultural forms from the communicative (divine and human) Word, then examines how this distinction plays out with the rise of audiovisual media in the 20th-century West. Even in human speech, visual forms dominate contemporary life and devalue the word; this insight informs discussion of the image/word clash in religion, politics, and art. After a scathing critique of present-day idolatry, Ellul places his hope for nonviolent community in the fragile spoken word. Ultimately, Ellul sees the Bible as presenting a hopeful vision of reconciliation—between visual reality and spoken truth. A new afterword by Jacob Marques Rollison contextualizes Ellul’s stance within French postmodern thought, illuminating Humiliation of the Word as an outspokenly “Protestant communication ethic” in contemporary philosophical and theological discussions of language.

Book Fasting  Prayer  and Humiliation for Sin

Download or read book Fasting Prayer and Humiliation for Sin written by Arthur Hildersam and published by Reformation Heritage Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of eight sermons including a reprint of The doctrine of fasting and praier, and humiliation for sinne, originally published in London by Edward Brewster in 1633.

Book The Christian Heritage of the 50 United States of America

Download or read book The Christian Heritage of the 50 United States of America written by Catherine Millard and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian heritage and history of the fifty United States of America inherent in their state constitutions, seals, insignia, bibles, mottoes, songs, hymns, coat of arms, flags, historical records, anecdotes and memorabilia. In addition, it includes numerous states greatest heroes and heroines chosen to represent them in the U. S. Capital Hall of Fame. Many of these distinguished persons were pastors, evangelists, and missionaries.

Book How about a Day of Humiliation  A sermon  etc

Download or read book How about a Day of Humiliation A sermon etc written by Charles Henry Gregan CRAUFURD and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln  1858 1860

Download or read book The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln 1858 1860 written by Abraham Lincoln and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected letters, speeches, etc. written by Abraham Lincoln.

Book Humiliation

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  • Author : Paulina Flores
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2019-11-07
  • ISBN : 1786075040
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Humiliation written by Paulina Flores and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An uncompromisingly honest collection of short stories, examining with unique perspicacity the missteps, mistakes and misunderstandings that define our lives. Pride and disgrace. Nostalgia and revenge. Tenderness and seduction. From the dusty backstreets of Santiago and the sun-baked alleyways of impoverished fishing villages to the dark stairwells of urban apartment blocks, Paulina Flores paints an intimate picture of a world in which the shadow of humiliation, of delusion, seduction and sabotage, is never far away. This is a Chile we seldom see in fiction. With an exceptional eye for human fragility, with unfailing insight and extraordinary tenderness, Humiliation is a mesmerising collection from a rising star of South American literature, translated from the Spanish by Man Booker International Prize finalist Megan McDowell.

Book Humiliation

Download or read book Humiliation written by Wayne Koestenbaum and published by Picador. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayne Koestenbaum considers the meaning of humiliation in this eloquent work of cultural critique and personal reflection. The lives of people both famous and obscure are filled with scarlet-letter moments when their dirty laundry sees daylight. In these moments we not only witness the reversibility of "success," of prominence, but also come to visceral terms with our own vulnerable selves. We can't stop watching the scene of shame, identifying with it and absorbing its nearness, and relishing our imagined immunity from its stain, even as we acknowledge the universal, embarrassing predicament of living in our own bodies. With an unusual, disarming blend of autobiography and cultural commentary, noted poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum takes us through a spectrum of mortifying circumstances—in history, literature, art, current events, music, film, and his own life. His generous disclosures and brilliant observations go beyond prurience to create a poetics of abasement. Inventive, poignant, erudite, and playful, Humiliation plunges into one of the most disquieting of human experiences, with reflections at once emboldening and humane.