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1994

Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

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China's Gilded Age, Xiao-Huang Yin Mar 1994

China's Gilded Age, Xiao-Huang Yin

Xiao-huang Yin

The article reports on social change in China. The transition from a centrally planned economy to a free market has set off an economic explosion and generated tremendous prosperity. According to the author, there are no signs of political liberalization in China and the power of the National People's Congress has increased significantly. The article discusses widespread corruption in China and the gulf between the prosperity of urban centers and the poverty of rural areas.

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1994 Furious Flower Poetry Conference Program Dec 1993

1994 Furious Flower Poetry Conference Program

Joanne Braxton

This conference was dedicated to Gwendolyn Brooks because of her prophetic, poetic voice that is urgent, unashamed, graceful, redeeming, and radical, a voice that tells us even amid the loneliness and the fears of contemporary life that we must live and conduct our blooming "in the noise and whip of the whirlwind." Dr. Joanne Braxton was among more than 30 major poets and critics to present at the 1994 Furious Flower Conference at James Madison University, celebrating over 40 years the furious flowering of black poetry.

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