In "Gilded Voices," Qiliang He focuses on "pingtan," a storytelling art using the Suzhou dialect, to explore the role of the cultural market in mediating between the state and artists in the PRC era.
Both countries undertook violent social revolutions early in the 20th century, says Li (political science, Merrimack College, Massachusetts), yet over the past two decades have engaged in a process of
As the world's population grows and the demands for natural resources increase, protected areas are becoming more important, but also more threatened. On the one hand, conservation of protected areas
The rise of modern public finance revolutionized political economy. As governments learned to invest tax revenue in the long-term financial resources of the market, they vastly increased their adminis
