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In her book chapters, “After an Icon (1994),” “The Whopper (1994),” and “The Turtles (2012), Zha Jianying vividly describes the changes of Chinese intellectuals, such as writers, producers, journalists and publishers, under the commercialization of China’s cultural world during the post-Tiananmen Democracy movement.  Exactly how had Chinese intellectuals changed and what had caused these changes? … Read more

1. Quote directly in each paragraph from primary and secondary sources 2. Analyze the story while incorporating Irony, symbolism and conflict. For example explain how a character is symbolic and or ironic and explain how the irony or symbolism is relevant to the other. 3. Explain how each of the literary terms work with each … Read more

In his Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, José Carlos Mariátegui claims to provide a treatment of the socio-economic questions of Peru that is thoroughly grounded in historical materialism. What would Walter Benjamin have to say about this in light of his Theses on The Philosophy of History? Would he applaud Mariátegui’s historical materialism, critique … Read more