Author: Dominic Sachsenmaier File Type: epub Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province. Yet Zhu nonetheless led a remarkably globally connected life. His relations with the outside world, ranging from scholarly activities to involvement with globalizing Catholicism, put him in contact with a complex and contradictory set of foreign and domestic forces. In Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled, Dominic Sachsenmaier explores the mid-seventeenth-century world and the worldwide flows of ideas through the lens of Zhus life, combining the local, regional, and global. Taking particular aspects of Zhus multiple belongings as a starting point, Sachsenmaier analyzes the contexts that framed his worlds as he balanced a local life and his border-crossing faith. At the local level, the book pays attention to the intellectual, political, and social environments of late Ming and early Qing society, including Confucian learning and the Manchu conquest, questioning the role of ethnic and religious identities. At the global level, it considers how individuals like Zhu were situated within the history of organizations and power structures such as the Catholic Church and early modern empires amid larger transformations and encounters. A strikingly original work, this book is a major contribution to East Asian, transnational, and global history, with important implications for historical approaches and methodologies.

Author: Mira Mattar (Ed.) File Type: epub span id=docs-internal-guid-5c7ecd51-ddf6-0272-9adf-6561cd4049bep dir=ltr 0pt 10ptbspan vertical-align baseline line-height 22px white-space pre-wrapfont face=GeorgiaYou Must Make Your Death Public fontspanspan Georgia line-height 22px white-space pre-wrapA Collection of Texts and Media on the Work of Chris Krausspanbp dir=ltr Noto Sans, serif 11px line-height 1.38 0pt 10ptspan 16px Georgia vertical-align baseline white-space pre-wrapThis book assembles all the talks and media presented at Aliens & Anorexia A Chris Kraus Symposium, which took place in March 2013 at the Royal College of Art, London.spanp dir=ltr Noto Sans, serif 11px line-height 1.2 0pt 0ptspan 16px Georgia vertical-align baseline white-space pre-wrapSince her first book, spanspan 16px Georgia font-style italic vertical-align baseline white-space pre-wrapI Love Dickspanspan 16px Georgia vertical-align baseline white-space pre-wrap, published in 1997, writer and film-maker Chris Kraus has authored a further six books ranging from fiction to art criticism to political commentary, via continental philosophy, feminism, critical and queer theory.spanp dir=ltr Noto Sans, serif 11px line-height 1.44 0pt 7ptspan 16px Georgia vertical-align baseline white-space pre-wrapThis collection begins to engage with questions Kraus work raises where, if at all, is the line between life as private and practice as public? How, if the body is always performing one or other of these, can they be delineated? Can this map onto the relations between other ever blurring not-quite-binaries artwork and critic, subject and object, masochist and sadist, unknown and known, embodied and disembodied, fiction and criticism?spanspan Georgia 16px font-style italic vertical-align baseline white-space pre-wrapYou Must Make Your Death Publicspanspan Georgia 16px vertical-align baseline white-space pre-wrap features essays and media by Travis Jeppesen, Helen Stuhr-Rommereim, Hestia Peppe, Samira Ariadad, Beth Rose Caird, Jesse Dayan, Karolin Meunier, Linda Stupart, Lodovico Pignatti Morano, Trine Riel, Rachal Bradley, David Morris, Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield and Chris Kraus.spanspan