Sentences with phrase «which cultural revolutions»

It's been long understood that literacy is the foundation from which cultural revolutions are born, and the opening of Sajia Darwish's library is the first step in a multidimensional approach to support a reading culture in her Kabul community.

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The film's title refers to the difficult years of China's Cultural Revolution, which Guo Pei's parents — a batalion leader in the People's Army, and her mother, a kindergarten teacher, whom we meet in the film — lived through.

In China, we have seen how rigid compliance with regime orthodoxy has led to political and policy disasters, whether during the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen, or on contemporary issues of environment, national minorities, and corruption, many of which still can not be discussed openly.

Millions of Chinese will testify to the gross injustices they suffered under the cultural revolution, which was the most serious effort thus far to make of China a radically socialist society.

There are many new technologies which have made possible the cultural revolution that is now taking place in almost every part of life globally.

Look at the deadly gulags and purges of the USSR, the deadly Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward of Mao, and the deadly Year Zero of Pol Pot, all which Marx's writings inspired... and all occurring within the past century (and people still prefer to make a stink about the Crusades that happened 1000 years ago).

I am a Christian, I did not like the fact Perry had the meeting at Reliant Stadium, or the comments made to Mitt, but as an older person, which you are probably not, you do not remember the Khmer Rouge or the Cultural Revolution or the bread lines in Russia, or the purge of Eritrea and Tigre (just a few) atheistic oppressive societies with little hope or caring.

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.

I have argued in a forthcoming work, The Realities of Faith and The Revolution in Cultural Forms, that the dimension of depth which has appeared in contemporary theology under the discussion of eschatology, has affinities with this new vision of science, if in fact it is not of apiece with it.

In the late 1950s the Chinese Church entered a unique period of post-denominationism which strengthened the fellowship of Christians from all over China so enabling us to go through the trial of fire during the Cultural Revolution

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.

For one thing, many of the unintended consequences of the cultural revolution of which these decisions were part have come into clearer view.

Here God is creating the revolution that enables us to avoid getting sucked in by the phony glories and satisfactions with which our economic, social, cultural, and political systems tempt us.

It is impossible to understand it without relating it to the «new theology» which preceded the cultural revolution and pushed God's transcendence beyond our ken, entrusting meaning to man.

Marxist — Leninist atheism is a form of atheism which holds that the essence of religion should be abolished.In China, religious institutions were shut down by the Red Guards in the 1960s and 1970s as part of the Cultural Revolution.

The revolution was to mount until in the twentieth century every people, tribe, and nation was profoundly altered and the whole human race was ushered into a world which in time dimensions was rapidly shrinking and which was displaying common cultural features.

The message echoed that of Francis's landmark 2015 encyclical Laudato Sii (Praise Be), where Latin America's first pope called for a cultural revolution to correct a «structurally perverse» economic system in which the rich exploit the poor, turning Earth into an «immense pile of filth».

Matthew Bowman, an editor at a Mormon studies journal called Dialogue, says Romney appears to embody the Mormon retrenchment of the 1960s and 1970s, when the LDS church defined itself largely in opposition to the broader American culture, which was seeing cultural upheaval and the sexual revolution.

«Now,» Arthur said, «suddenly every educated black in the United States is caught in the cultural and mental revolution which has Africa as the geographical Mecca.

First, Ezra Vogel's magisterial biography Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of Modern China, about the man who reinvented the country after the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and then Julia Lovell's The Opium War, which charted the clash between Britain and China that first started the confrontation between west and east:

Both the Chinese government and Chinese intellectuals are acutely aware of the phenomenon of populism, which last flourished here during the Cultural Revolution.

If this all sounds a little oblique, Kates presents a dizzying whirlwind of visuals, which not only illustrate the argument, but also make the intellectual babble seem terribly exciting — re-creating a cultural moment when ideas still mattered and an aesthetic revolution was there for the taking.

For those who were born outside of communism, The Bathing Women sheds light on some of the Cultural Revolution's tragedies and effects on young people, but it is not political strife that marks this work as noteworthy — it is the careful exploration of love, loss, and the challenges of friendship and sisterhood that extend across time and culture which leave a lasting impression.

The mood, hustle, power and immense growing pains of today's China bleed through Jan - Philipp Sendker's superlative suspense novel, Whispering Shadows, which delves into the explosion of big business following China's Cultural Revolution.

He was 11 when the Cultural Revolution was launched, at which time he left school to work as a farmer, and began to work in a cotton factory when he turned 18.

Born in Shanghai in 1955, Chen Zhen grew up during the tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution, which ended in the late 1970s.

Composed from amateur footage taken by Abraham Zapruder and subsequently published in Life magazine, Laing's shaped - canvas painting highlights the international fascination with America's cultural revolution and the ways in which it could shift the political landscape.

Which most resembles a Cultural Revolution?

Chen Zhen grew up during the tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution, which ended in the late 1970's.

The organizers worked with the staff of Zhongshan Park to clean up the Waterside Pavilion, which during the Cultural Revolution had been used for storage.

As he was growing up during the Cultural Revolution, he had to go to propaganda classes at school, in which those who could draw well, did the propaganda drawings for school.

The exhibition also includes four new oil paintings that continue Zhang's inquiries into the domestic interiors to which people returned after the Cultural Revolution, and in which the artist came of age.

Blooming in the Shadows: Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974 — 1985 will introduce the work of three unofficial Chinese art groups who worked in this vein: the No Names, the Stars, and the Grass Society, all of which arose following the end of the Cultural Revolution and helped launch the avant - garde movement in China.

The family only returned to Beijing in 1976, at the end of the Cultural Revolution, after which Ai studied animation at the Beijing Film Academy and co-founded the avant - garde art group Stars with fellow artists Ma Desheng, Wang Keping, Huang Rui, Li Shuang, Zhong Acheng, and Qui Leilei.

Cao's work, which includes video, performance, and digital media, examines the daily life of Chinese citizens born after the Cultural Revolution.

The nine artists in this exhibition, born after the China Economic reform (1976 - 1989), possess no memory or experience of the hermetic Cultural Revolution, or even the periods before those, which were rewritten by the Revolution.

A Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution, later a scriptwriter in Beijing for state television - after having lived through deportation to Outer Mongolia - poet and actor, he began to sculpt, working almost exclusively in wood, a material through which he freely expresses sensuality which, in China, even today, is still a cause for repression.

January to April 2013 saw the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, show «On Off: China's Young Artists in Theory and Practice», which focused on emerging and mid-career artists born after the Cultural Revolution.

In the 1950s and 1960s, London underwent a cultural revolution, which altered forever the trajectory of contemporary art and gave rise to a radical re-formulation of artistic production.

The revolution of mores, tastes, and behavior is a constant, but this transformation unfolds against timeless human rituals — talking, dancing, sunbathing, playing — which emphasizes cultural continuity rather than disjunction, and produces images that are simultaneously intimate and transcendental, quotidian and universal.

The three - screen piece is inspired by the operas Madame Mao started to commission in the mid-1960s during China's Cultural Revolution, which are themselves an interesting mash - up of traditional Eurocentric art forms and communist aesthetics.

This was a time of great cultural and social dislocation borne of new technologies, a time in which one can find parallels with much of the dislocation we feel in this age of meta - information, the growth of A.I. and the blinding speed of the digital revolution.

And recording energy history using crude oil as a printing medium, to examine post industrial revolution developments, both cultural and technological, which define our world today.

In this sense, the artist hopes to point out the existing fractures in the times and truth regimes which encompass them, opening up space so that these cultural manifestations — violated everyday day - by - day by genocides and epistemicides — rise to the surface in an oniric and idealized sparkle, capable of blowing the universal and continuous force of resistance, insurgence, revolt and revolution.

The artist was born in 1965, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution, pursuant to which whole tracts of Chinese culture were obliterated — somewhat unusually by China's own people rather than by a foreign colonial -LSB-...]