This is a Project Michelson study report. The author analyzes 17 Chinese Communist dramatic films and compares them with traditional Chinese literature and drama and with Chinese films produced in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The dominant themes discussed are 1. The Feudalistic Family 2. Liberation of Women 3. Liberation of Youth 4. Reactionary Figures 5. Revolutionary Figures 6. Antiindividualism 7. ...

of relative chaos (ca. 2I00-I850) to an age of political stability (ca. I850-I625). Under the able leadership of the Yamhadian dynasty, a feudal system of relationship created one entity out of the whole region.') The evidence at our disposal allows us even to imagine a political and economic Pax Yamhadiana which, beginning before the fall of Mari, lasted until the rise of the Hittite State and...

As we enter the second decade of the 21st Century, we find ourselves at a rare historical moment-a time of great opportunity fraught with substantial pitfalls. Numerous potential trajectories of the Internet may unfold before us. While decentralized and participatory platforms have birthed a revived movement for democratized media production, these phenomena depend on the common resource of the...

To re-Catholicize Bohemia after the Thirty Years' War, the Austrian Habsburgs commissioned, in 1651, a population list according to religious belief, which generated census-type lists for many communities. A research team is constructing and analyzing a database consisting of the 1651 census, the 1654 tax register, the 1680 tax revisitation, and the 1711-1748 Theresian cadasterfor fivefeudal do...

Gürcü tarihi hakkındaki çalışmalar tarihsel bağlar dolayısıyla Avrasya Türk dünyası tarihinin aydınlatılması konusunda önem arz etmektedir. Ancak, dilinin zorluğu Türkiye literatüründe yapılacak çalışmaları sınırlandırmaktadır. Özellikle Gürcistan Orta Çağı’nı çalışan bir araştırmacının karşılaştığı sorunlardan en önemlisi bazı kavramlar bilgilerin kısıtlı olmasından ileri gelmektedir. Krallığı...

There was never a clear interpretation of modern architecture in Chinese history. Socialism ended five thousand years of feudalism. Cultural Revolution wiped out any sense of cultural continuity. The sudden return of market economy flooded the country with Western influence. These drastic social changes provided the driving force for a new national identity. However, the rapidly economic growth...