Many scholars and historians of Chinese medicine and science, in China as well as in the West, have claimed that the ancient Chinese, in particular the unknown authors of the medical classic Huangdi Neijing , anticipated William Harvey’s monumental discovery of the circulation of the blood ( xueye xunhuan) by more than two thousand years. This view has been widely accepted in both China and the...

Twenty-five years after the collapse of the communist regimes, there is a wide diversity among countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union when it comes to the methods they have adopted to confront their communist past, the timing of their transitional justice policies, as well as the progress they have registered to date. Some countries have adopted radical lustration programs bann...

TV serials became the most important genre of the popular culture in Czechoslovakia during the period of so-called normalisation – the 1970s and the 1980s. The new post invasion regime shifted the propagandistic emphasis to the popular culture sphere and thus TV serials became a space, where the conscientiously controlled dominant ideology met the mindsets and opinions of the audience. The pape...

Abstract This chapter analyzes how the city museums of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Galle Fort deal with memory legacy colonialism in framework expanding economic political power People’s Republic China (PRC) Asia. In PRC, historical country’s colonial past has been shaped by Chinese Communist Party (CCP). contrast to transnational nature communist ideology, CCP’s interpretation history is strongly...

The purpose of the article work is to highlight stages evolution Ukrainian scenic word in Ivan Franko Theater context historical and cultural process from 1920s present analyze features artistic direction "socialist realism" his influence on word. research methodology consists using method retrospection acting works Franko’s till presenttimes; culturological used study state ideology socio-cult...

Twenty-five years after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the European East-West divide has not been relegated to the annals of history. Among other areas, it persists tenaciously within the ethnological/anthropological sciences practised in Europe. This article deconstructs and challenges reified differences between ethnologies in Central-Eastern Europe and Western, mainly British-s...

PurposeThis study examined the battle of arena power between Islam and communism that occurred in dark events Indonesia 1965 through Najib al-Kailani novel’ 'Adzra Jakarta. MethodThis qualitative research applied a narrative case design made uses Jakarta as main unit analysis. To analyzed data, used Pierre Bordieu’s concept relations to dismantle fight Indonesian history capital ownership figur...