Yang Shu, a Chinese professor who studies unrest in Xinjiang, said the recent violence reflected Uighur grievances about social inequalities and dislocation driven by economic modernization, the spreading influence of militant currents of Islam and the deterioration of ethnic relations since 2009.
Westerners looked at the Kingdom and their gaze was taken by the wealth; by the apparent modernization; by the professed leadership of the Islamic world.
Alvar Aalto's relationships with architectural modernism can best be understood in terms of two intersecting trajectories: the large historical transformations caused by modernization (in this case, the birth of nation states on one hand and the increased internationalization of societies on the other) and the particularities of his own persona (certain restlessness and malleability).
In contrast to previous reports, this year's places a heavier emphasis on the threat posed by the modernization of the People's Liberation Army to other regional powers beyond Taiwan and to U.S. forces in Asia, as well as to the continental United States.
The history of our sleep habits as a species, how they've been affected and challenged by modernization itself, and how the very technologies that are supposed to be making our lives easier are wreaking havoc with our ability to sleep.
Most was filmed in the numerous parts of the country untouched by modernization, lending credibility to it.
Development inspired by modernization efforts seems to prepare the ground for neoliberal conquests.
Offering the latest Western mental-health theories, treatments and categories in an attempt to ameliorate the psychological stress sparked by modernization and globalization is not a solution; it may be part of the problem.
ATGET was more of a nostalgist than Marville, photographing what would soon be unphotographable — those parts of the city threatened by modernization.
The first restaurants began in Paris, Mr. Alléno noted, and he wanted — just like the Galaups and Mr. Cazottes — to revive the products of the past nearly made extinct by modernization and industrialization.
