Transcending the Borders of Countries, Languages, and Disciplines in Russian Émigré Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transcending the Borders of Countries, Languages, and Disciplines in Russian Émigré Culture write by Christoph Flamm. This book was released on 2018-12-17. Transcending the Borders of Countries, Languages, and Disciplines in Russian Émigré Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The political changes at the end of the last century in the Soviet Union, and later the Russian Federation, had deep-reaching repercussions on the interpretation of Russian culture in the time of division between “Russia Abroad” and “Russia at Home”. Ever since, scholars have tried to understand and to describe the interrelationship between the two Russias. In spite of intensive research, numerous conferences and publications, there are still many discoveries to be made and a number of questions to be answered. This volume presents a selection of articles based on papers presented at an international conference on Russian émigré culture that was held at Saarland University, Germany, in 2015. The essays assembled here offer new insights into aspects of Russian émigré culture already known to scholarship, but also to explore new facets of it. As such, it is not the well-known centres and leading figures of Russian emigration that are highlighted; instead the authors give prominence to places of seemingly secondary importance such as Prague, Istanbul or India and to such lesser-known aspects as collections and collectors of Russian émigré art and the impact of cultural activities of the Russian emigration on the culture of the respective host countries.
Networking the Russian Diaspora
Networking the Russian Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Networking the Russian Diaspora write by Hon-Lun Helan Yang. This book was released on 2020-09-30. Networking the Russian Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Networking the Russian Diaspora is a fascinating and timely study of interwar Shanghai. Aside from the vacated Orthodox Church in the former French Concession where most Russian émigrés resided, Shanghai today displays few signs of the bustling settlement of those years. Russian musicians established the first opera company in China, as well as choirs, bands, and ensembles, to play for their own and other communities. Russian musicians were the core of Shanghai’s lauded Municipal Orchestra and taught at China’s first conservatory. Two Russian émigré composers in particular—Alexander Tcherepnin and Aaron Avshalomov—experimented with incorporating Chinese elements into their compositions as harbingers of intercultural music that has become a well-recognized trend in composition since the late twentieth century. The Russian musical scene in Shanghai was the embodiment of musical cosmopolitanism, anticipating the hybrid nature of twenty-first-century music arising from cultural contacts through migration, globalization, and technological advancement. As a pioneering study of the Russian community, Networking the Russian Diaspora examines its musical activities and influence in Shanghai. While the focus of the book is on music, it also gives insight into the social dynamics between Russians and other Europeans on the one hand, and with the Chinese on the other. The volume, coauthored by Chinese music specialists, makes a significant contribution to studies of diaspora, cultural identity, and migration by casting light on a little-studied area of Sino-Russian cultural relations and Russian influence in modern China. The discoveries stretch the boundaries of music studies by addressing the relational aspects of Western music: how it has articulated national and cultural identities but also served to connect people of different origins and cultural backgrounds.
Byzantium in the Popular Imagination
Byzantium in the Popular Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Byzantium in the Popular Imagination write by Markéta Kulhánková. This book was released on 2023-08-10. Byzantium in the Popular Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the contemporary cultural legacy of Byzantium or The Eastern Roman Empire? This book explores the varied reception history of the Byzantine Empire across a range of cultural production. Split into four sections: the origins of 'Byzantomania' in France, modern media, literature, and politics, it provides case studies which show the numerous ways in which the empire's legacy can be felt today. Covering television, video games and contemporary political discourse, contributors also consider a wide range of national and geographical perspectives including Russian, Turkish, Polish, Greek and Hungarian. It will be essential reading for scholars and students of the reception and cultural history of the Byzantine Empire.
Christians in the City of Shanghai
Christians in the City of Shanghai - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christians in the City of Shanghai write by Susangeline Y. Patrick. This book was released on 2023-10-19. Christians in the City of Shanghai available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examining the stories of diverse Christians in Shanghai, this book uses the city as a model to highlight how a minority religion in a city has interacted with other religions as well as social, cultural, political, and economic changes. Susangeline Y. Patrick illustrates how the history of Shanghai Christians sheds light on why and how Christians have accommodated social and political changes, and gives valuable insights into multiculturalism, globalization, sinicization, and ecclesiology. The interreligious dialogues between Shanghai Christians and other traditions such as Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Islam, and Judaism throughout history provide worthy reflections on the roles of Christians in a multi-religious space.
Geographies of Anticolonialism
Geographies of Anticolonialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geographies of Anticolonialism write by Andrew Davies. This book was released on 2019-12-16. Geographies of Anticolonialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fresh approach to scholarship on the diverse nature of Indian anticolonial processes. Brings together a varied selection of literature to explore Indian anticolonialism in new ways Offers a different perspective to geographers seeking to understand political resistance to colonialism Addresses contemporary studies that argue nationalism was joined by other political processes, such as revolutionary and anarchist ideologies, to shape the Indian independence movement Includes a focus on a specific anticolonial group, the “Pondicherry Gang,” and investigates their significant impact which went beyond South India Helps readers understand the diverse nature of anticolonialism, which in turn prompts thinking about the various geographies produced through anticolonial activity
