Sentences with phrase «more cultural revolutions»

And, the Chinese conclude, there will be more cultural revolutions in the future as their society moves along a socialist direction.»

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After devastating famine in the late 1950s followed by social upheavals of the Cultural Revolution in the»60s and»70s, China turned to a more pragmatic approach to economic development when Deng Xiaoping ascended to power at the end of that period.

Another elite echoed this view and also pointed to the younger generation's more limited knowledge of China's ups and downs in general, including the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.

Unfortunately, in the process, the Soviet cultural revolution was thrown to the wolves; but this aesthete can in any case hardly have thought any more highly of it than did J. V. Stalin)

Jean - Louis Margolin tells us in The Black Book that twenty million died in that system after the Communist victory in 1949; twenty million others during the Great Leap Forward of 1959 — 61; and many thousands more during the Great Cultural Revolution of the 1960s.

What de-moderated our modernity was the sexual / cultural revolution of the 60s: it claimed there was little need any more to restrain ourselves with respect to sex, scarcity, and conformity.

While his account is often sloppy, he is nevertheless right that the transhumanist agenda is a logical consequence of Gnosticism (which he and many others mistake for Christianity), and that this Gnosticism, which has theological roots in the Scotist - nominalist revolution in metaphysics, ever more exclusively shapes the modern cultural imagination and our understanding of what it is to be human.

After being closed during the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), Buddhist and Taoist temples are being opened and restored, and tourists are allowed — indeed, strongly encouraged — to visit them, especially the more spectacular ones.

We saw its harm all the more clearly during the Cultural Revolution, which turned out to be very anti-cultural and not in any sense a revolutiRevolution, which turned out to be very anti-cultural and not in any sense a revolutionrevolution either.

Faced with the first full - scale cultural revolution in history, Burke explained with grace and force that the role of custom, manners, and personal character is more fundamental to society than the form or content of law.

The Souls Of ChinaIan Johnson Allen LaneBefore Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 70s,... More

The Souls Of ChinaIan Johnson Allen LaneBefore Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 70s, scholars used to talk about religion in China as... More

Jews whose great - grandparents were chased from their Russian shtetls; Chinese whose grandparents lived through the ravages of the Cultural Revolution; young immigrants from Africa whose parents survived massacres; adults of every ethnicity who grew up with alcoholic or abusive parents — all carry with them more than just memories.

Unsurprisingly, Persepolis has attracted the wrath of the Iranian government, but more captivating than the film's depictions of cultural repression (a scene where Marji, out to buy a black market Iron Maiden album, is beset by weasel - bodied female Guardians of the Revolution because she wears a jean jacket and «punk» sneakers is but one well - handled example) are its more understated portraits of Iran's intellectual elite, at once removed from the proletariat it so pompously champions and sadly delusional about the real threat of the fanatic trajectory of the rRevolution because she wears a jean jacket and «punk» sneakers is but one well - handled example) are its more understated portraits of Iran's intellectual elite, at once removed from the proletariat it so pompously champions and sadly delusional about the real threat of the fanatic trajectory of the revolutionrevolution.

Less an awards show and more a prolonged statement of cultural correction, Sunday's Golden Globe Awards telecast nevertheless managed to keep things fairly entertaining in the midst of revolution.

Then came the nerd - cool days and the high tech revolution, a status - obsessed culture of consumption, more sophisticated and devastating U.S. imperialist wars, purblind postmodern doxa, and, of course, the trend towards cultural studies in the academy.

Even the Chinese re-education camps couldn't make the Cultural Revolution reailty — and they invested a whole lot more energy and resources in trying to do so than the Common Core folks ever could.

Maybe the book could have been expanded to add more of the Cultural aspects of China during the Cultural Revolution.

Inspiring a cultural revolution by shifting the paradigm from head to heart and co-creating a more a passionate, compassionate, loving and interconnected world.

Two of his more recent installations will also be on show, Notes Towards a Model Opera (2015), about the Cultural Revolution in China, and O Sentimental Machine (2015), produced for the Istanbul Biennale.

Second, the use of line was more sweeping and open than in the Socialist Realist style that was strictly imposed in China during the Cultural Revolution.

It seems to me that we are seeing not just a cultural shift but a cultural revolution in the field of family law with an emphasis on empowerment and self determination of the individuals leading to more accountability and responsibility being placed at the door of the separation couple.