Peter Sluglett Konstancija Brazeniene Albert Hourani
The political history of late Imperial/early modern China and the relationship between China's traditional political culture and the rapidly changing political environment of China today are examined through this study of the iconic figure of Yang Jisheng. Born in 1516, Yang had a brief and traumatic career as a junior official in the middle Ming dynasty, before being executed in 1555 for criticising the politics of the imperial state. Over the ensuring 450 years, a variety of constituencies within China have appropriated and deployed Yang's memory in different ways to promote their...
The political history of late Imperial/early modern China and the relationship between China's traditional political culture and the rapidly changi...
This volume contains the letters of Konstancija Braženiene written in Lithuania, East Germany, and Siberia between 1944 and 1946. It reveals a remarkable portrait of survival during the Cold War and post-Cold War period and adaptation to changing political conditions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Lithuania.
This volume contains the letters of Konstancija Braženiene written in Lithuania, East Germany, and Siberia between 1944 and 1946. It reveals a re...
