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Most Chinese journalists and authors subscribe to the second strategy, touting large numbers of protests even in what had previously been depicted as placid periods and transforming…

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In 1849, Thoreau published Civil Disobedience; it became deeply influential and affected many great writers like Leo Tolstoy and the worldwide spirituality movement by the late nineteenth century. Mahatma Gandhi, who was experimenting with his ideas of non-violent resistance (satyagraha or truth force) from his days in South Africa in the 1890s, be

AFTER QIBYA, CONDEMNATIONS POURED in from across the globe, including from the American Jewish community.13 But Ben-Gurion was unmoved. When the prime minister called Sharon in to discuss the details of the notorious night, Sharon recalled Ben-Gurion’s reaction: “It doesn’t make any real difference what will be said about Qibya around the world. Th

many religious, spiritual and inspired secular movements and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have emerged in Asia to critique, oppose or alleviate the devastation being perpetrated on the planet by the combined assault of capitalism and nationalism.

Tagore invented secular festivals for the celebration of the different seasons in the region and brought together the urban and the rural during harvest festivals. He started cooperative movements among the tribal peoples and the rural folk, seeking to educate them in health, agriculture, savings and other modern ways of survival, while encouraging

This book is centrally concerned with the role of narrative in politics and narratives of a particular kind. I contend that narratives of what is going on in Xinjiang play a leading role in Xinjiang's politics.

The tropes of "training" and "political maturation," basic components of the European mission civilisatrice, had been deployed by Britain, the United States, and