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Cuántos hombres se han convertido naturalmente en padres entre los 60 y los 70 años, algo que todos hemos escuchado alguna vez en la vida. Por lo general, el período de fertilidad de un hombre es mucho más largo que el de una mujer. Donde después de los 36 a los 45 se vuelve más difícil para una mujer quedar embarazada. Pero, ¿sabías que hay algunas mujeres en el mundo que pueden dar a luz normalmente a la edad de 65-70 e incluso a los 80?...
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For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, caste, class, religion, globalization, economic liberalization, nationalism, and emerging modernities.
New readings focus attention on the experiences of the middle classes, migrant workers, and IT professionals, and on media, consumerism, and youth...
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Case studies examining the individual's role in how traditional Chinese performing arts like music and dance are represented, maintained, and cultivated.
Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts examines the key role of the individual in the development of traditional Chinese performing arts such as music and dance. These artists and their artistic works-the "faces of tradition" -come to represent and reconfigure broader fields of cultural production...
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One of the most durable figures in modern history, the peasant has long been a site of intense intellectual and political debate. Yet underlying much of this literature is the assumption that peasants simply existed everywhere, a general if not generic group, traced backward from modernity to antiquity. Focused on the transformation of Panjab during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book accounts for the colonial origins of global...
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Ideas Roadshow
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2022
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This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Hwei-Chih and Julia Hsiu Chair in Chinese Studies and Professor of History at UC San Diego. This wide-ranging conversation covers the emerging American-style consumer culture of China which is revolutionizing the lives of hundreds of millions of Chinese, how it has transformed its economy and lifestyle and has the potential to reshape the world, and the different environmental...
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This fascinating study of early cinema in the Netherlands Indies explores the influences of new media technology on colonial society.
The Komedi Bioscoop traces the emergence of a local culture of movie-going in the Netherlands Indies (present-day Indonesia) from 1896 until 1914. It outlines the introduction of the new technology by independent touring exhibitors, the constitution of a market for moving picture shows, the embedding of moving picture...
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This illuminating anthology provides a range of perspectives on daily life across Central Asia and how it has changed in the post-Soviet era.
For its citizens, contemporary Central Asia is a land of great promise and peril. While the end of Soviet rule has opened new opportunities for social mobility and cultural expression, political and economic dynamics have also imposed severe hardships. In this lively volume, contributors from a variety of disciplines...
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