How do you think the June 4th movement of 1989 will be remembered----as another May 4th 1919, the threshold of a period of general political awakening and turbulence, or instead as a Chinese version of 1848 or 1968 in Europe: a last spontaneous explosion of idealistic revolt, followed by a headlong pursuit of material consumption, and complacent institutional stabilization----the very opposite ...

Abstract Isabel Casteels examines the response of contemporary viewers – both intended and actual to Frans Hogenberg’s execution prints dating from first decades Dutch Revolt. Hogenberg characterised these executions, like those counts Egmond Horn in Brussels 1566, as religious ceremonies, thus implicitly criticising them. The highlight public, ritual, indeed purely theatrical elements events, ...