Qingdao Publishing House
Qingdao Publishing House is a state-owned publisher of China founded in 1987. It has published nearly 20,000 titles covering the complete publication spectrum.
View Rights PortalQingdao Publishing House is a state-owned publisher of China founded in 1987. It has published nearly 20,000 titles covering the complete publication spectrum.
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View Rights PortalUnmittelbar nach dem Terroranschlag der Hamas auf Israel beginnen Sasha Marianna Salzmann und Ofer Waldman eine Korrespondenz über eine erschütterte Welt – die Welt nach dem 7. Oktober. In Briefen und Chats, mit Gedichten und Musik, die sie einander schicken, versuchen sich die beiden Autor:innen an einer Beschreibung und Benennung dessen, was sie gerade sehen und erleben – jenseits des tagespolitischen Geschehens. Ofer Waldman erzählt von seinem Alltag in Israel. Er sitzt Shiva, unterhält sich mit seinen Kindern, geht auf Mahnwachen, hört auf die Klänge des Nahost-Krieges. Sasha Marianna Salzmann verdichtet ihre Erlebnisse und Beobachtungen in unterschiedlichen Städten Mitteleuropas. Sie sitzt am Mahnmal für die ermordeten Jüdinnen und Juden an der Donau in Budapest, streitet sich in Wiener Kaffeehäusern und schaut dem Blaulicht der Polizeikonvois am Berliner Hermannplatz zu. Was ist noch übrig von alten Gewissheiten nach dem 7. Oktober, was hat Bestand im Strudel der Meinungen, Behauptungen und Positionierungen? Und was scheint in der Folge des Nahostkonfliktes und des furchtbaren Krieges im Nahen Osten unwiederbringlich verloren? Im Versuch, sich diesen Fragen erzählerisch zu nähern, entsteht ein Dialog, der immer mehr zum berührenden Dokument einer Freundschaft wird: Ich sehe dich, sagen diese Briefe, ich kann nichts tun, aber ich bin da. »Du schreibst meinen Namen, und die Zeit verklebt sich, Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Die Zukunft, in die wir schauen, wird zum Spiegel. Ein Trost, immerhin: Ich sehe dich darin.« Ofer Waldman an Sasha Marianna Salzmann, 22. Oktober 2023
This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint's lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships. The book makes available a range of 7th- and early 8th-century texts, five of which have never before been translated into English. It opens with a broad-ranging explanation of the historical background to the translated texts and then each source is accompanied by a full commentary and an introductory essay exploring its authorship, language and subject matter. The sources are rich in the detail of Merovingian political life. Their subjects are the powerful in society and they reveal the successful interplay between power and sanctity, a process which came to underpin much of European culture throughout the early Middle Ages.
This book examines key moments in which collective and state violence invigorated racialized social boundaries around Mexican and African Americans in the United States, and in which they violently contested them. Bringing anti-Mexican violence into a common analytical framework with anti-black violence, A savage song examines several focal points in this oft-ignored history, including the 1915 rebellion of ethnic Mexicans in South Texas, and its brutal repression by the Texas Rangers and the 1917 mutiny of black soldiers of the 24th Infantry Regiment in Houston, Texas, in response to police brutality. Aragon considers both the continuities and stark contrasts across these different moments: how were racialized constructions of masculinity differently employed? How did African and Mexican American men, including those in uniform, respond to the violence of racism? And how was their resistance, including their claims to manhood and nation, understood by law enforcement, politicians, and the press? Building on extensive archival research, the book examines how African and Mexican American men have been constructed as 'racial problems', investigating, in particular, their relationship with law enforcement and ideas about black and Mexican criminality.
Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch von Diana Bürgel
In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy drawn from the Buddhist, Taoist and vernacular pantheons. Under the watchful eye of Hell's 'enforcers', the lower echelons of demon soldiers impose post-mortal punishments on the souls of the recently deceased for moral transgressions committed during their prior incarnations. Chinese religion in contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan offers an ethnography of contemporary Chinese Underworld traditions, where night-time cemetery rituals assist the souls of the dead, exorcised spirits are imprisoned in Guinness bottles, and malicious foetus ghosts are enlisted to strengthen a temple's spirit army. Understanding the religious divergences between Singapore and Malaysia (and their counterparts in Taiwan) through an analysis of socio-political and historical events, Fabian Graham challenges common assumptions about the nature and scope of Chinese vernacular religious beliefs and practices. Graham's innovative approach to alterity allows the reader to listen to first-person dialogues between the author and channelled Underworld deities. Through its alternative methodological and narrative stance, the book intervenes in debates on the interrelation between sociocultural and spiritual worlds, and promotes the destigmatisation of spirit possession and discarnate phenomena in the future study of mystical and religious traditions.
Als Ivan Novak beim Leeren seiner Mülltonnen im Westen Sydneys erschossen wird, will seine Familie Rache, vor allem sein Vater Milan, Chef eines Gangsterclans. Es ist ein Job für den zweiten Sohn, Ivans jüngeren Bruder Johnny. Aber Johnny ist kein Killer, und er liebt seine Frau Amy und den gemeinsamen Sohn Sasha. Amy stellt ihm ein Ultimatum: Entweder er steigt aus dem Kreislauf der Gewalt aus, oder sie verlässt ihn und nimmt Sasha mit. Hin- und hergerissen zwischen der Loyalität zu seinem Vater und der Liebe zu seiner Frau, plant Johnny den Coup seines Lebens. Er entwickelt einen brillanten Plan, der die Rachegelüste seines Vaters befriedigen und es ihm, Amy und Sasha ermöglichen soll, endlich dem Würgegriff seiner Clan-Familie zu entkommen und woanders ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Doch wenn der Plan scheitert, riskiert Johnny, alles zu verlieren …
This book provides a compelling analysis of proxy warfare and its far-reaching implications for statehood, focusing on the conflict in Afghanistan. Introducing the innovative concept of "state-wrecking," it bridges theory and practice to unravel how external support for insurgent actors fuels violence, undermines territorial control and sovereignty, intensifies violence, and dismantles political legitimacy. The work shifts the discourse on proxy wars from the strategies of global powers to the procedural and structural impacts within target states. Grounded in rigorous empirical research, including interviews, archival data, and conflict analysis, the book critically examines the Pakistan-Taliban nexus and the limitations of US-led interventions. By blending a robust theoretical framework with in-depth case studies, it reveals how proxy dynamics shape conflicts, disrupt governance, and challenge international security. This is an essential resource for those seeking to understand the entanglements of modern warfare and the fragility of states under external influence.
This book offers a nuanced snapshot of the complex geopolitical dynamics in the Persian Gulf, underlining the interaction between Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the US. Examining their interwoven relations since the 1970s, Luíza Cerioli's framework reveals how changes in US-Saudi ties have ripple effects on Iran-US and Iran-Saudi relations and vice versa. Using a historical lens, she explores how enduring US-Saudi connections hinge on order expectations, delves into the cognitive factors shaping US-Iran enmity and traces the source of oscillation in the Saudi-Iran ties. Employing Neoclassical Realism, the book investigates status-seeking, national identities and leadership preferences, offering a deeper understanding of the region's multipolar system. By combining International Relations and Middle East Studies, Cerioli's work contributes to both fields, unravelling the intricate interplay between international structures, regional nuances and agency in shaping Persian Gulf geopolitics.
Most scholars believe that China's nationality policy, like that of other socialist states, imitated the Soviet nationality model, a system which has been termed an "affirmative action empire." This book offers two contributions to the literature which run counter to this convention. First, it argues that the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Soviet Union (USSR) were different; while the PRC was aimed to build an ideal-typical nation-state, the USSR was an open union of nation-states that was only temporarily confined to a physical territory. Second, while scholars who have noted this difference attribute it to contextual factors, such as ethnic structure, geopolitical status, and Russia's intervention into the Chinese Revolution, this book contends that context shaped the Sino-Soviet difference, yet it did not determine it. Rather, there was significant leeway between the implications of the contextual factors, and what the policy-designers ultimately established. This book probes who held agency, and how these individuals bridged this gap.
Revolutionary anxieties sheds light on an unexplored dimension of the 2011 Egyptian revolution: the anxieties experienced by Cairo-based liberal elite, socialites, and cultural actors who opposed the rise of the new political actors, the Muslim Brotherhood. This book provides fresh insights into the failure of the Egyptian revolution by examining the perspectives of those who had a vested interest in maintaining the status-quo. It engages with post-colonial theory and examines the elite milieu in Cairo through the lenses of gender and race. Based on over two years of ethnographic research in various elite locations such as the Cairo Opera House, an Egyptian-European film festival, and an elite sporting club in Cairo, the book illustrates how members of Egyptian liberal upper class insisted on their privilege in a moment when the country's class hierarchies were challenged. By revealing the prevalence of counter-revolutionary sentiment among Cairo's liberal and affluent elite, the book tells an untold story of the Arab Spring.
Revolutionaries in Iran choose to identify memories of the Iran-Iraq War as their 'collective' memory to mark the war era as the temporal reference in history - the time of times, or sometimes even a time beyond time. Can a sole event and its violence truly become - for some - the all-encompassing, constituting element of history and memory? This book pursues this question and follows revolutionaries in the maze of 'collective' memory to offer a temporal account of the breakdown of happenings - as well as the mending of happenings through the force of remembrance.
JEDER TRAUM HAT EIN ENDE Effy hat es geschafft: Endlich darf sie als erste Frau in Llyr Literatur studieren! Doch die Ereignisse der letzten Zeit lasten schwer auf ihr. Zumal ihre männlichen Kommilitonen sie alles andere als herzlich willkommen heißen. Einzig Preston gibt ihr Halt – der jedoch selbst zu kämpfen hat. Vor allem, als seine Träume ihn plötzlich in eine versunkene Stadt entführen. Was hat das zu bedeuten? Und wieso verfolgen ihn die Visionen sogar in der Realität? In der Fortsetzung des SPIEGEL-Bestsellers A Study in Drowning zeigt Ava Reid, welche Macht Mythen, Träume und Literatur besitzen. Dabei behandelt sie wichtige Themen wie Mental Health, Feminismus, Nationalismus und Propaganda und verwebt sie gekonnt mit einer berührenden Romantasygeschichte.