A rising scourge to England’s social peace and multiculturalism, the English Defence League (EDL) has violently protested against Islam since its inception. In the fantastically daring Angry White People, Hsiao-Hung Pai follows a group of individuals who got caught up in the wave of far-right street movements that began in 2009. Pai investigated the rise of the EDL and other extremist organizations, falling in with several of their members and observing their day-to-day lives.
In the 1980s, Taiwan’s economy was booming and the social structure was rapidly transformed. But at the same time, the cultural and spiritual parts of people’s lives were descending. Therefore, with concerns for social vulnerable groups and aiming at cultural, environmental, and political issues, the “Human” magazine was created. The author Tsai Ming-Te was involved with the affairs of the magazine from the beginning of the foundation to the very end.
The White Terror – almost forty years of political repressionand military rule that stood as the longest period of martiallaw in modern world history when it was lifted in 1987. It pre-datedand pre-defined Taiwanese democracy, shaping the consciousnessof everyone who endured it. Yet, as with all great and terribleevents in history, trends, periods, and other proper nouns tend toefface the individual psychologies that drive and destroy them.
Profiling the Unseen is about the people we run into every day, the ones who keep our systems running, who we see every day and yet we do not really “see”. This is book share their inspiring stories through photographs and words.
This book captures the author’s memories of the beautiful and truly inspiring people who she had met over 2014, across Taipei, Delhi and San Francisco.
In an enchanting book of wonders, Uruguayan writer Galeano applies the collage-like technique of Memory of Fire, his fictive historical trilogy of the Americas, to his own life and the contemporary scene. redundant and you later make clear that these are short pieces.aa He writes of his years in exile during Uruguay's military dictatorship in the 1970s, of his heart attack and of his wife's loss of a child halfway to term. His sociopolitical commentaries expose the shallow selfishness and callousness vague. do you mean 'cultural character' 'lack of individuality'aa?
After you were born I felt it was necessary to write. I needed to tell the story just as the period blood silently came outside from my body every month. Every night there were countless dreams I made. I hated your father. The feeling was so strong that I want to cut him deeply by knife every month. Therefore, I needed to go back to the hotel of my childhood again and again, to reconstructed my brain again and again, to patted the cat again and again, and then to put my nose into the cat’s hair, again and again. I was shocked by my power and brutality.
In the mud of revolution, the souls got lost. What can only be held was the absurd faith. — a novel which represents the period of Cultural Revolution.
The background was set in a worker village in Wuhan. With this book, we can behold the history and turbulence of the Cultural Revolution through common people’s eyes. The writer described the darkness and the sadness of humanity with plain yet wild tone. He didn’t put stress on the sufferings of the time but tell the story of low class people instead. And this is what far more touchable.
To know the real China, you must read YeFu’s book first.
The writer wrote down the aspiration and the vicissitude of his generation. Those who didn’t want to flee from their homeland had chosen to stayed and witnessed. They witnessed the way government acts and they lived and died with it. To live, was about to write and to witness the era with your own lives.
