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Injury of Class: Compressed Modernity and the Struggle of Foxconn Workers

Temporalités, 2017
Foxconn is a distinctive example of compressed modernity in China, which reworks the temporality and spatiality of globalized production and consumption that not only seriously affect human societies in general, but also specifically the new generation ...
Ngai Pun, Huipeng Zhang
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Railroad revolution: infrastructural decay and modernization in Argentina

Tapuya, 2019
How does modernity arrive and take hold? In this article, I examine efforts by the recent administration of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to modernize railroad infrastructure in Argentina amidst ongoing decay.
Stephanie McCallum
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When Modernity and Nationalism Intersect: Textiles for Dress in Republican China

Perspective, 2016
This essay examines the multivalent political and cultural meanings embedded in the production, design, materiality, and representations of clothing textiles in the Republic of China (1912-1949). Undergoing industrialization and design reform, Republican
Mei Mei Rado
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La mosquée chinoise : support d’identités  et  de modernités

Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2009
With the 1980s reforms, Islam in China recovered its vital spaces for religious practice and expression. These past twenty years have been marked by the restoration and construction of mosques.
Elisabeth Allès
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“A Watch Dropped in the Desert”: Journey to a War and the New Life Movement [PDF]

Athens Journal of History, 2015
Through an analysis of the socio-ideological foundations of the New Life Movement in Republican China (1912-1949), this paper is a cross-cultural study of China’s urban modernity in the 1940s with the example of Shanghai.
Qiang Zhang
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Buddhist Activism and Chinese Modernity

Journal of Global Buddhism, 2015
The history of modern Chinese Buddhism has begun to attract attention in recent years. Some scholars have done inspiring research as they unravel the integration of Buddhism into the highly secularized process of Chinese modernity by drawing on the ...
Hung-yok Ip
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The appearance of new architectural representation in Korean modern architecture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
This study explores the characteristics of architectural representation in Korean modern architecture during the transition to modernity. For this purpose, this research examines the appearance of new architectural representation in Korean modern ...
Myengsoo Seo
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Civilizational Analysis in Historical Sociology and Explanations of the “Soviet Collapse"

Социология власти
The article deals with attempts to explain the collapse of the Soviet version of modernity — and the disintegration of the USSR — in (post)-Sovietology and historical sociology.
M. V. Maslovskiy
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['Tropical Modernity: A Hybrid-Construct in South China']

Docomomo Journal, 2021
Rui Leão, Charles Lai
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Perception of Freedom in the Chinese Linguistic Worldview: Tradition and Modernity [PDF]

, 2021
Катерина Наумова
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