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Final Assessment Department of State Mission to Baghdad Report on the National Library and the House of Manuscripts October 27-November 3, 2003 Online available at http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/ir aqreport/iraqreport.html
The building housing the National Library is unsuitable and has been damaged too intensely to be used. Even if repaired the location is unattractive, the facilities limited and architecturally indistinguishable. Recommendations are for a new library with steel framed construction of several floors linked to the National Archives by a pedestrian walkway.
Financial Assistance Provisions
Financial assistance will be applied for through the United States funding source as announced in the press release in April 2003.
The United States announced in this press release that it would contribute approximately $2 million "to help protect and restore key museums and archeological sites in Iraq." Further stated was that: "The funds will support specific cultural preservation needs to be identified in consultation with Iraqi cultural officials. The archeological and cultural heritage of Iraq documents over 10,000 years of the development of civilization. " the report stated that funds would be included in this contribution to: "re-establish a U.S. overseas research center in Baghdad, support for development of the "Red List of Iraqi Antiquities at Risk" by the International Council of Museums, and a searchable online database of images from the Baghdad Museum. The "Red List" will consist of categories of objects looted from Iraq and will serve as an aid in the interdiction and recovery of these objects worldwide."
Boucher, Richard (2003) U.S. Contributes $2 Million to Protect and Restore Iraqi
Washington, DC April 29, 2003 Online available at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/20055.htm
Arnoult, Jean-Marie (2003) Assessment of Iraqi cultural heritage UNESCO Contract 26-00-00 526A June 27 - July 6, 2003. [Online available at http://www.iflaorg/VI/4/admin/iraq2207.pdf]
Library of Congress Assists with the Reconstruction of the National Library in Baghdad
Library Specialists Participate in State Department Effort to Rebuild Iraq's National Library and Archives (2004) Library of Congress [Online available at http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-210.html]
The Library of Congress and the U.S. Department of State Mission to Baghdad Report on the National Library and the House of Manuscripts October 27-November 3, 2003 Online available at http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/ir aqreport/iraqreport.html
Boucher, Richard (2003) U.S. Contributes $2 Million to Protect and Restore Iraqi
Washington, DC April 29, 2003 Online available at http://www.state.gov/r/pa / prs/ps/2003/20055.htm
2005-02027 Cultural Heritage Preservation Project
References
The Library of Congress and the U.S. Department of State Mission to Baghdad Report on the National Library and the House of Manuscripts October 27-November 3, 2003 Online available at http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/ir aqreport/iraqreport.html
Boucher, Richard (2003) U.S. Contributes $2 Million to Protect and Restore Iraqi
Washington, DC April 29, 2003 Online available at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/" target="_blank" REL="NOFOLLOW" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/20055.htm
Arnoult, Jean-Marie (2003) Assessment of Iraqi cultural heritage UNESCO Contract 26-00-00 526A June 27 - July 6, 2003. [Online available at http://www.iflaorg/VI/4/admin/iraq2207.pdf]
Library Specialists Participate in State Department Effort to Rebuild Iraq's National Library and Archives (2004) Library of Congress [Online available at http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-210.html]
The Library of Congress and the U.S. Department of State Mission to Baghdad Report on the National Library and the House of Manuscripts October 27-November 3, 2003 Online available at http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/ir aqreport/iraqreport.html
Washington, DC April 29, 2003 Online available at http://www.state.gov/r/pa / prs/ps/2003/20055.htm
Unknown Cultural Revolution In most of the literature, China's Cultural Revolution gets a bad rap. It is considered a time of social turmoil that eventually led to an economic disaster for the country. There are accounts of intellectuals being persecuted as well as violence in many communities. However, the author, Dongping Han, gives a different account of this period. In many cases, history is written by the winners. Therefore, the capitalistic
In the course of the Cultural Revolution, the communist leader Mao Zedong proclaimed particular cultural requirements for both art and writings in China. This was a period that was filled with violence and harsh realisms for the people within the society. Authors such as Bei Dao, Gu Cheng and Yu Hua can be considered to be misty poets, whose works endeavored to shift from an inactive response to active formation.
Chinese Cultural Revolution, which began in the early 1960's and endured until the death of Mao Tse-tung, drastically altered the cultural arena of China from an agrarian system to one of modernity and acceptance by Western nations. Yet the Cultural Revolution was in effect based on communist principles which affected its ability to transcend the needs of the majority at the expense of the needs of the individual, meaning
Chinese Cultural Revolution, which was started by Mao Tse-tung in 1966 and did not conclude until after his death in 1976, is referred to officially by the current government of China as haojie; as GAO Mobo notes that "haojie is ambiguous because it can be a modern term for 'holocaust' or a traditional term to mean 'great calamity' or 'catastrophe'." (Gao 15). To some extent, those who lived through the
Autographic style book by Dr. Li Zhisui ( the private life of chairman mao pp433-546), and the short stories by Chen Jo-hsi, and the movie The Blue Kites, are all about these authors' and director's experiences of the tumultuous year of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. In what way do you think their works (book and movie) are valuable as historical documents? The Communist Revolution in China was fighting against
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