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Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia

Drawn from Prof. Vladislav Zubok's new book of the same title (Harvard University Press, 2009), this talk examines one of the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and […]

Politics and the Chinese Language

What distinguishes political language from daily-life language in thePeople's Republic of China? In what ways have different sorts of people (officials, protesters, ordinary folk) used or responded to the official […]