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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.
Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Technology Works: Mark Fell On The Anniversary Of The Battle Of Orgreave | The Quietus
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This influence always went far beyond our ability to impose our will. It’s strongest where no coercion is involved. Our culture has a pervasive reach beyond anything the British Empire or Soviet internationalism or the French mission civilisatrice achieved—this in spite of Americans’ unwillingness to live abroad. Gilbert and Sullivan did not catch
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
The most popular Reddy of this millennium, Y.S. Rajashekhara Reddy (Y.S.R.), was known for his supposed magnanimity in dealing with the outlawed Maoists. In 2005, he invited Maoists for talks to ‘settle the issue’ once and for all. He too belonged to the Congress Party.
Mukesh Manjunath • The Age Of Heroes: The Incredible World of Telugu Cinema
Such trends compelled me to stand my ground. I worked to expose Said’s Orientalism screed, noting that the first experts on the Middle East came from Germany and Hungary, neither of which ever colonized the region.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
In the early twenty-first century, we are again entering into a new geopolitical era; power is becoming more diffused, most notably with Asia joining Western Europe and the United States in technological, economic, and military preeminence. China, India, North Korea, and Pakistan are nuclear powers. The new age of digital technologies is abetting t
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
Indeed, with the establishment of the PRC, even pioneer reformers, such as the doyen of Chinese rural studies, Fei Xiaotong, who had sounded the clarion call for rural recovery early in his studies in the 1930s of the intimate relations of the Chinese peasant and the soil (xiangtu Zhongguo), became intoxicated by the dominant approach of subjugatin
... See morePrasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
By the late 1970s, the ANC was a banned organization, with most of its leaders in prison or in exile; it began to organize a military wing decamped just outside South Africa's borders. In this environment, everyone was a potential government spy or collaborator. Raman married, kept up appearances, and hid his activities even from his wife. Many of
... See moreMinal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
The paper served as a primer on the administration’s foreign