"This book considers the remarkable transformations that have taken place in India since 1980, a period that began with the assassination of the formidable Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Her death, and that of her son Rajiv seven years later, marked the end of the Nehru-Gandhi er…
Zero Jigen's pre-expressive utopian body: ritual theory and urban transformation -- Butoh Cine dance and the remediated sixties -- Singing yokoo tadanori: IchiyanagiToshi, the city and the aesthetics of listening -- Performing revolution at Shinjuku Plaza -- The Osaka exposition…
Introduction: Thinking about museums -- Do museums need objects anymore? -- Objects of culture and cultural objects -- Where is the East? -- Where have all the grown-ups gone? -- The birth and the death of a museum -- Museums, public space, and civic identity.
The English broadcaster describes how he pursued and conducted his historic interview of President Richard Nixon, with excerpts from the program in which Nixon discusses the country's involvement in Vietnam and his role in Watergate.
Tombstone: the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962
An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.
