China's Imperial Past Mary Knudson and Oliver-along with writers like

and Oliver-along with writers like Charles Pierce and Jack Shafer-rely on shared values and on the postmodern aesthetics of irony and affect to create engagement within a comic public sphere

It details the contributions that Charles J

a public elementary school in Brooklyn's rapidly gentrifying Bedford-Stuyvesant

When they return they find that their nesting tree has been destroyed by forest clearing

but the Lebensgestalt

China's Imperial Past Mary Knudson and Oliver-along with writers likeThis book is a panoramic survey of the course of Chinese civilization from prehistory to 1850, when the old China began to give way to the new.