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with no function other than the exercise of its monopoly on violence

Thus the late President Sukarno of Indonesia

how a citizen-recorded video of the Rodney King beating at the hands of the LAPD became known as the “first viral video”

but with its very fabrication

The Women keyword-cultural-history with no function other thanPart memoir and part literary nonfiction, The Women captures the harsh and unequal experience of being a woman in 1970s and 80s rural China. Written by the award winning author Yan Lianke, the book is both a tribute to the women who shaped his life and a sociological critique of Chinas treatment of women. In the countryside, the human being is a worker, but rural womens work is diminished, their hardship ignored. Through humor and tragedy, Lianke