As sociological research on China has accumulated over the past decade, perceptions of social change after the revolution have altered markedly. This essay reviews findings in the areas of economic development, community organization, bureaucracy, and social stratification that reflect these changed perceptions and that should be of wide interest in the discipline.
"This book offers an original and informed critique of a widespread yet often misunderstood condition -- nostalgia, a pervasive human emotion connecting people across national and historical as well as personal boundaries. Often seen as merely escapist, nostalgia also offers solace and self-understanding for those displaced by the larger movements of our time. Walder analyses the writings of some of those entangled in the aftermath of empire, tracing the hidden connections underlying their yearnings for a common identity and a homeland, and their struggles to recover their histories. Through a series of comparative reflections upon the representation in literary and related cultural forms of memory, he shows how admitting the past into the present through nostalgia enables former colonial or diasporic subjects to gain a deeper understanding of the networks of power within which they are caught in the modern world and beyond which it may yet be possible to move. Considering authors as varied as V.S Naipaul, J.G. Ballard, Doris Lessing, W.G. Sebald, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, as well as versions of 'Bushman' song, Walder pursues the often wayward, ambiguous paths of nostalgia as it has been represented beyond, but also within, Europe, so as to identify some of those processes of communal and individual experience that constitute the present and, by implication, the future."--
Wie löst man einen Fall, der ein Verbrechen vermuten lässt? Eine umfassende Antwort auf diese Frage gibt das vorliegende Buch. Er erörtert den Verdacht, mit dem alles beginnt, nennt die kriminalistischen Mittel und die Methode ihres Einsatzes, Schritt für Schritt, bis zweifelsfreier Beweis für Tat und Täterschaft erbracht ist - oder man erkennen muss, dass keine Straftat vorliegt, sie nicht bewiesen werden kann oder der Täter nicht zu überführen ist. Zahlreiche Beispiele aus dem Alltag der Kriminalität veranschaulichen die einzelnen Überlegungen ... (Quelle: Text Verlagseinband / Verlag)
