Cartoonists. Ding Cong's true story of the outcast Ah Q -- Feng Zikai protests the giant hedge cutters -- Academy painters and president. Li Keran's luminous path through mountains -- Li Kuchan's eagle gazes far -- Huang Yongyu's eye talk -- Pan Tianshou's nocturne for a plum tr…
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The Art of Resistance' surveys the lives of seven painters - Ding Cong (1916-2009), Feng Zikai (1898-1975), Li Keran (1907-89), Li Kuchan (1898-1983), Huang Yongyu (b. 1924), Pan Tianshou (1897-1971), and Shi Lu (1919-82)-during China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), a time wh…
"Before the U.S. Constitution had even been signed, soldiers and new veterans protested. Dissent, the hallowed expression of disagreement and refusal to comply with government's wishes, has a long history in the United States. Soldier dissenters, outraged by the country's wars o…
This dissertation explores the shifting boundaries between the center and the margins, between establishment and opposition and between orthodoxy and heterodoxy in seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire through a contextual study of the life and works of a controversial Sufi, Meh[do…
This dissertation, "The Discriminatory Discourses of Self-sacrifice: The State and the Dissident Martyrs in Post-revolutionary Iran," examines the sociopolitical, cultural, and religious transfigurations of martyrdom and self-sacrifice in recent Iranian history. It comparatively…
