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History

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In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China's ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power

The South Korean Film Industry

Edited by Sangjoon Lee, Dal Yong Jin, and Junhyung Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Art, Art History, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

A multifaceted exploration of the South Korean film industry

Beyond the Bauhaus

Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33

By Deborah Ascher Barnstone
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Art, Art History, Urban Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reclaims the essential role that the city of Breslau played in the origins of aesthetic modernism in the Weimar era

Alienation Effects

Performance and Self-Management in Yugoslavia, 1945-91

By Branislav Jakovljevic
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art History, History, European History
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Examines the interplay of artistic, political, and economic performance in the former Yugoslavia and reveals their inseparability

Nothing Happened

Charlotte Salomon and an Archive of Suicide

By Darcy Buerkle
Subjects: Art, Art History, Cultural Studies, History
Series: Michigan Studies in Comparative Jewish Cultures

A close look at Charlotte Salomon's fantastical autobiography Life? or Theater? and the way that German social history has omitted the stories of German Jewish women and suicide

Baroque Horrors

Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities

By David Castillo
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Art, Art History, History, Intellectual History

Exploring the historical roots of horror in the modern age

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