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Salon Directory In fact, he spent a year at Princeton as a visiting scholar, where he was following in the footsteps of none other than Nathan Sharansky, who had also been a visiting scholar there. Budeiri is fairly confident that in the end a deal will be made -- not least because Israeli bureaucrats don't want his case to go to the courts, where precedents could be set that might limit evictions. Now Sharansky's staff is denying the Jerusalem-born Budeiri the right to stay and work in the city of his birth, where he has lived most of his life. dir.salon.com /news/feature/1999/08/10/budeiri/index.html

Humanism (Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture) Pietro Bembo, writer, scholar, and collector, was among the most eminent and influential literary men of the sixteenth century. After the Council of Trent, however, his works began to seem a bit frivolous, even dangerous, at least to the humorless bureaucrats of the Congregation. Cardinal Bessarion--scholar, diplomat, book collector, and Platonic philosopher--was among the most remarkable men of his century. www.loc.gov /exhibits/vatican/humanism.html

Amazon.com: Books: The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks: A Study of Revenge Laurie Mylroie shows that a thorough, incisive, solitary scholar can be worth far more than battalions of bureaucrats." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. But since this goes against the grain of the bureaucrats and politicians in Washington, they do everything they can to discredit her findings. Laurie Mylroie must desperately want the U.S. to attack Iraq, for nothing else will explain the extraordinary lengths she goes on the very slimmest of evidence to blame the first World Trade Center attack on that country. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006009771X?v=glance

LAHORE: History of Punjab deliberately 'distorted' -DAWN - Local; 07 August, 2004 Punjabi scholar Shafqat Tanvir Mirza lamented that the history was silent about the heroes of the Punjab who had been putting up tough resistance against the colonial rulers and other foreign invaders or those who were the persons of eminence in various fields of national activity. These distortions were being made in the books written by the retired civil and military bureaucrats, the books written at the behest of the government, the books written in the west about the sub-continent. They were speaking at a book launching ceremony of Maharaja Porus, an Urdu translation of Indian scholar Buddha Parkash by M. Waseem held at the Lahore Press Club here on Friday with MNA Aitzaz Ahsan in the chair. www.dawn.com /2004/08/07/local21.htm   (588 words)

China Traditional Chinese society was based on the landed gentry, the scholar bureaucrats, and the peasants. China was the first country to develop a civil service with bureaucrats who attained their positions by passing rigorous exams in the Chinese classics. China lacked technology and scientific knowledge, research had lapsed as scientists and intellectual "learned from the pesants." The military was using ancient aircraft of 1954 vintage and lacked modern tanks. www.csupomona.edu /~jmvadi/PLS202/China.html   (1729 words)

Section VI The scholar Hayashi Razan [1583-1657], well-versed in Chinese texts, developed this official ideology, which identified the samurai with the Confucian 'gentleman' and stressed the transformation of men of war into literate scholar-officials and loyal bureaucrats. In its Japanese version, it stressed the strict social hierarchy dividing shi [scholars in China; samurai in Japan]; merchants, artisans, and peasants, and the obligations of filial piety, meaning obedience of inferiors to superiors within the family and the polity. web.mit.edu /21h.504/www/perdue_16.htm   (1729 words)

Ming Dynasty article - Ming Dynasty History China Three August Ones the Five Emperors Dynasty Shang - What-Means.com Having fought off the calamities of the Mongol invasion, and given the realistic threat to China still posed by the Mongols, Hongwu reassessed the orthodox Confucian view regarding the military as an inferior class to be subordinated by the scholar bureaucracy. Under Hongwu, the Mongol bureaucrats who had dominated the government for nearly a century under the Yuan dynasty were replaced by the Han Chinese. After many years of fighting, the rebel group led by Zhu Yuanzhang, the future Hongwu emperor, became the most powerful of the various Han Chinese groups and Zhu declared the foundation of the Ming Dynasty in 1368, establishing his capital at Nanjing and adopting "Hongwu" as his reign title. www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Ming_Dynasty   (3199 words)

H-Net Review: Arne Kislenko on Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century Convincingly, Cumings contends that China is really a fragmented nation, too divided between intellectuals, bureaucrats, and party leaders to be a single-minded nation capable of truly "shaking the world" as many Westerners fear. There is no doubt that Bruce Cumings is a pre-eminent scholar of modern East Asia and U.S. diplomatic history. Contrary to the myths, Cumings argues that China since 1949 has been remarkably restrained in exercising its power within its own historic sphere of influence, and that despite prevailing American opinion (which is frequently want to liken it to Japan in the late 1930s), China is not a rogue state. www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=30300985127382   (1348 words)

A Remembrance of Erving Goffman I was also shocked at the advice he gave me about institutions of higher learning: "A university is a place to pick up your mail." Here he was reflecting the belief that our real business was scholarship, not teaching or serving as bureaucrats. To have had a person of Erving Goffman's towering intellect and special qualities as a mentor was surely one of the most fortunate things that could have happened to a young scholar. Goffman was and will remain a pre-eminent social thinker of his era and perhaps of the twentieth century. web.mit.edu /gtmarx/www/ascervg.html   (1348 words)

The Washington Post Whitewashes Muzaffar Iqbal [Weblog] - Daniel Pipes In an article provocatively titled " A Scholar Confronts ‘Ugly Face of America'," the Washington Post reports today on a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origins, Muzaffar Iqbal, who was taken aside in the Toronto airport in December 2002 and asked some questions by the U.S. immigration authorities, causing him to miss his plane. The Post presents Iqbal as someone wronged by officious American bureaucrats ("Do you think I'm a security threat to your country?" "I'm just doing my job. Denies the validity of any Islamic truth but that of the Islamists: "It is also to be noted that in clear contradistinction to the propagators of this new brand of moderate Islam, there is no category of moderate Muslims in the Qur'aan. www.danielpipes.org /blog/122   (1348 words)

A Remembrance of Erving Goffman I was also shocked at the advice he gave me about institutions of higher learning: "A university is a place to pick up your mail." Here he was reflecting the belief that our real business was scholarship, not teaching or serving as bureaucrats. To have had a person of Erving Goffman's towering intellect and special qualities as a mentor was surely one of the most fortunate things that could have happened to a young scholar. Goffman was and will remain a pre-eminent social thinker of his era and perhaps of the twentieth century. web.mit.edu /gtmarx/www/ascervg.html   (5542 words)

Dissecting Leftism What I see is a bunch of hypocritical Green politicians and bureaucrats getting up to all sorts of dishonest shenanigans to foist an economically damaging myth on a gullible world, contrasted with an honest jobbing lone scholar with limited resources trying to establish that there is an alternative view. John Brignell, the author of the UK site "NUMBERWATCH" has released his "number of the year" for 2003. They are contagious, life-threatening diseases and are now taking hold in the UK. dissectleft.blogspot.com /2003_12_28_dissectleft_archive.html   (5542 words)

McClung Museum - Chinese Tang Pottery With the establishment of the new Tang dynastic ruling house in AD 618, an efficient central government administration based upon scholar bureaucrats chosen by an examination system was introduced by emperor Taizong (reigned AD 627-649). In AD 756, however, General An Lu-shan led a rebellion that brought the downfall of emperor and arts patron, Xuantong; the capital cities of Chang'an and Luoyang were occupied by rebels, and Chang'an was sacked, a blow from which the empire never fully recovered. This rebellion, followed by a Tibetan invasion in AD 763, contributed to the decline of the empire, which continued into the 10th century with the central Tang government steadily losing its power to military governors in the provinces. mcclungmuseum.utk.edu /specex/tang/tang.htm   (5542 words)

Amazon.ca: 1587, a Year of No Significance: Books The emperor was the emperor--he was not Wanli, not Jiajing, etc. The bureaucrats and officials--whose power was constrained individually--exercised great power as a group, effectively dictating how the emperor should act, behave, and present himself to the public. Others in the drama--the powerful minister, the innovative general, the eccentric bureaucrat, and the dissenting scholar--would find the same forces inhibiting their ability to affect real changes. Little wonder then, that the Wanli emperor, whose power was in the negative and not the positive, hardly sought to rule in an effective manner after being weighed down by such an institution. www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0300025181   (1288 words)

McClung Museum - Chinese Tang Pottery With the establishment of the new Tang dynastic ruling house in AD 618, an efficient central government administration based upon scholar bureaucrats chosen by an examination system was introduced by emperor Taizong (reigned AD 627-649). In AD 756, however, General An Lu-shan led a rebellion that brought the downfall of emperor and arts patron, Xuantong; the capital cities of Chang'an and Luoyang were occupied by rebels, and Chang'an was sacked, a blow from which the empire never fully recovered. In the short reign of the Sui dynasty (AD 581-618), great improvements were made in China, including the establishment of an internal communications system and the construction of canals and roads, which directly contributed to China's wealth. mcclungmuseum.utk.edu /specex/tang/tang.htm   (1288 words)

UCLA International Institute :: Zheng He's Voyages of Discovery The expeditions of Zheng He, who was himself a eunuch, were strongly supported by eunuchs in the court and bitterly opposed by the Confucian scholar bureaucrats. Zheng He, von Glahn suggested, may be seen as the tip of an iceberg: He was prominent, but there is much, much more to story of maritime trade and other relationships in Asia in the fifteenth century and beyond. In a word, von Glahn continued, "Zheng He reshaped Asia." Maritime history in the fifteenth century is essentially the Zheng He story and the effects of Zheng He's voyages. www.international.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=10387   (1695 words)

McClung Museum - Chinese Tang Pottery With the establishment of the new Tang dynastic ruling house in AD 618, an efficient central government administration based upon scholar bureaucrats chosen by an examination system was introduced by emperor Taizong (reigned AD 627-649). In the short reign of the Sui dynasty (AD 581-618), great improvements were made in China, including the establishment of an internal communications system and the construction of canals and roads, which directly contributed to China's wealth. Also at that time a vigorous foreign policy focusing on massive westward expansion was initiated, extending control as far as the Tarim River Basin and present-day eastern Tajikistan in central Asia. mcclungmuseum.utk.edu /specex/tang/tang.htm   (1695 words)

Humanism (Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture) Pietro Bembo, writer, scholar, and collector, was among the most eminent and influential literary men of the sixteenth century. After the Council of Trent, however, his works began to seem a bit frivolous, even dangerous, at least to the humorless bureaucrats of the Congregation. Pietro Bembo and Jacopo Sadoleto, Pope Leo X's two Latin secretaries, were the leaders of the movement. www.loc.gov /exhibits/vatican/humanism.html   (5020 words)

Tribute to David Beers Quinn by D.J. Dutton David was also capable of a bit of back-stairs diplomacy, of which, for example, I was a fortunate beneficiary when, after one year in post, the bureaucrats sought to abolish my position on grounds of economy. Alison, an accomplished scholar and indexer in her own right, was an essential component of David’s academic career and a frequent visitor to the department, not least because she acted as his chauffeuse. David was keen to be democratic but he also had clear ideas as to how he wanted Modern History to develop and he would never give up trying to persuade colleagues to support his plans. www.hakluyt.com /hak-soc-tributes-dutton.htm   (5020 words)

Asia Times: Pakistan split over ban on militias Following the murder of Shaukat Raza Mirza, some Shiite bureaucrats and a religious scholar were murdered. KARACHI - The recent country-wide sectarian violence in Pakistan has revived conflict between officials of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the interior ministry, headed by a retired lieutenant-general, Moinuddin Haider, over measures to crack down on militant groups, irrespective of their sectarian beliefs. The former ruling parties, the Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), have tried to stage rallies, but the administration has come down hard on them, even jailing hundreds of their members. www.atimes.com /ind-pak/CH07Df02.html   (881 words)

The Communist Party in Australian lifet Among the communists elected to the council was the colourful Rhodes scholar Fred Paterson. So, also, did the Communist Party industrial branches in several textile factories, and their intervention against the strikes was rather more successful than the intervention of the textile union bureaucrats. This article is an overview of the significance and influence of the Communist Party in Australia, covering the period between the German invasion of Russia in 1941 and the dissolution of the CP in the early 1990s. members.optushome.com.au /spainter/CPA.html   (14067 words)

Public Choice Theory, by Jane S. Shaw: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty Public choice economists make the same assumption—that although people acting in the political marketplace have some concern for others, their main motive, whether they are voters, politicians, lobbyists, or bureaucrats, is self-interest. In the late eighties James C. Miller, a public choice scholar who headed the Office of Management and Budget during the Reagan Administration, helped pass the Gramm-Rudman law, which set a limit on annual spending and backed it with automatic cuts if the ceiling was not met. Olson is known in public choice for his path-breaking book The Logic of Collective Action, in which he pointed out that large interest groups have trouble gaining and maintaining the support of those who benefit from their lobbying. www.econlib.org /library/Enc/PublicChoiceTheory.html   (14067 words)

The New York Times > Week in Review > You're a Mean One, Mr. Smith In 1958, the Senate rejected the nomination of Lewis L. Strauss to become commerce secretary, said Richard Norton Smith, a presidential scholar and executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill. "He was generally regarded as unpleasant," Mr. Washington, those who work in and around the government say, has always had more than its share of Not-So-Nice Guys, congressmen and bureaucrats who can be difficult to work with at best, and infantile at worst. O John R. Bolton, the State Department official whose nomination to become United Nations ambassador was showing signs of derailing last week, may be a bully who abuses his authority with subordinates, according to testimony at his confirmation hearing. www.nytimes.com /2005/04/24/weekinreview/24fount.html?ex=1271995200&en=f9cc359d0b3d98e1&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss   (737 words)

chinatml2 Under the Han rulers, the scholars (shih bureaucrats) were incorporated into the state bureaucracy. Chinese history, until the twentieth century, was written mostly by members of the ruling scholar-official class and was meant to provide the ruler with precedents to guide or justify his policies. Buddhism's slow penetration of Chinese society was accelerated in the atmosphere of psychological, philosophical, and spiritual dislocation attending the breakup of the Han. web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/hum210/tml/chinatml/chinatml2.htm   (2444 words)

China to the Fall of the Han Dynasty Gentry bureaucrats sought a hedge against insecurity by buying land and often taking advantage of their office to do so, and often they were able to make their land tax exempt. China's most renowned Confucian scholar, Dong Zhongshu, was outraged by the plight of the peasants, and he led the way in expressing concern about the social decay. Their explorations, and China's success against the Xiongnu, brought an exchange of envoys between China and states to the west, and it opened for the Chinese the 4000-mile trade route that would become known as the Silk Road. www.fsmitha.com /h1/ch14.htm   (10411 words)

Archive June 1996 The eunuch Columbus The scholar bureaucrats, arguing that the truly cultivated need no acclaim from barbarians to be certain of their own superiority, outmaneuvered the ill-bred eunuchs and outlawed overseas travel. Cheng, in contrast, sailed to trumpet the Ming Dynasty's abstinence from greed, its immunity to the outside world's temptations (except for giraffes and plaudits). Cheng's splendid flotillas of several hundred junks could safely venture the nearly 10,000 miles to Zanzibar off the southeast coast of Africa thanks to Chinese inventions like the compass, the rudder and watertight internal compartments. www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0696columbus.htm   (990 words)

Ming Dynasty - Art History Online Reference and Guide The traditional Confucian examination system that selected state bureaucrats or civil servants on the basis of merit and knowledge of literature and philosophy was revamped. An ambitious Muslim eunuch of Mongol descent, a quintessential outsider in the establishment of Confucian scholar elites, Zheng He led seven expeditions from 1405 to 1433 with six of them under the auspices of Yongle. In a typically Confucian viewpoint, Hongwu felt that agriculture should be the country's source of wealth and that trade was ignoble and parasitic. www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Ming_Dynasty   (990 words)

Admirable men/women in Chinese history - Chinese-forums.com Despite the recommendation of 148 bureaucrats that Zeng Jing be put to death by slicing, Yongzheng did not give the scholar the ultimate punishment. When Yongzheng died 7 years later, the young Qianlong reversed his father's clemency pardon, and ordered Zeng to be sliced up in public. It would be nice to have a movie about Di Renjie, but if the movie turns out horrible we're better of without it. www.chinese-forums.com /showthread.php?t=2567   (403 words)

McClung Museum - Chinese Tang Pottery With the establishment of the new Tang dynastic ruling house in AD 618, an efficient central government administration based upon scholar bureaucrats chosen by an examination system was introduced by emperor Taizong (reigned AD 627-649). Interestingly, it was contact with the skilled horsemen of this region that stimulated in the Tang elite the love of horses that is featured prominently in their art. Also at that time a vigorous foreign policy focusing on massive westward expansion was initiated, extending control as far as the Tarim River Basin and present-day eastern Tajikistan in central Asia. mcclungmuseum.utk.edu /specex/tang/tang.htm   (1117 words)

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