Popular Protest And Political Culture In Modern China: Learning From 1989

<p>A reconsideration of contemporary Chinese society and politics since the Tiananmen Square massacre in June 1989. The book emphasizes the need to understand the vital role that a culture plays in shaping political action.</p>

History

Timothy Cheek

Vera Schwarcz

Ernest P. Young

Joseph W. Esherick

John Israel

Lee Feigon

Ann Anagnost

Stephen R. MacKinnon

Asia

Westview Press

Chisel of Remembrance is devoted to the premise that in the cultural and communal traditions of all peoples, be they Chinese, Jewish or Tibetean, there is what Yeats called a ceremony of innocence offering salvation from the mere anarchy loosed when the past is forgotten. In poems concerning the classical arts of creation, the value of remembrance, the havoc wrought by war and revolution, and the peace gained by ancient practices of meditation and devotion to the present, the author urges us to hear the voice within the silence. Reviewers have praised the exciting combination of passion, wisdom, and historical perspective present in this new poetry collection by Vera Schwarcz. Stanley Moss finds the work of Schwarcz to be "poetry of a very high order, simultaneously informed by English, Chinese, Hungarian, Romanian, German, Hebrew, and Jewish religious tradition. I place English first only because the book is written in English. But I hear Chinese, a language I do not know, as dominant while post-Holocaust emotion is ever-present... This politically charged poetry with its abhorrence of suffering also teaches a profound love of nature, while providing the simple pleasures Auden required."

Chisel of Remembrance

Antrim House

In Ancestral Intelligence, Vera Schwarcz has added a forceful and fascinating work to her ever-growing list of publications depicting the cultural landscape of contemporary China. Here, she has created stunning "renditions" of poems by a mid-20th Century dissident poet, Chen Yinke, and has added a group of her own poems in harmony with Chen Yinke's. Like his, her poems show a degradation of culture and humanity, in this case through comparison of classic and modern Chinese logographs.

Ancestral Intelligence

Physics Of Wrinkle Formation

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