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The Heresy of Wu Han

Author : Clive Ansley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487596405
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Heresy of Wu Han written by Clive Ansley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the centre of China's Cultural Revolution in its first stages stands the ambiguous figure of Wu Han. Occupying until the mid-sixties a favoured position among the intellectual elite of the People's Republic, he was the eighth-ranking figure in the Chinese Communist Party, and his Peking Opera Hai Jui's Dismissal was performed all over China. Gradually it became apparent that Wu Han was using Hai Jui to lampoon Chairman Mao Tse-tung and the core policies of the CPP. Other dissidents began to pen articles and plays on similar themes. For several years Mao chafed under these literary attacks, but in late 1965 he retaliated. A sudden, scathing attack on Wu Han and his play by an obscure newspaper editor marked the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, a cataclysm in which the Party leadership was decimated while Mao regained full supremacy. This volume presents the first translation of Wu Han's plays and helps to clarify the obscure origins of a national phenomenon that was at once intellectual, social, and political.

The Heresy of Wu Han

Author : Clive Ansley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608110103
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Heresy of Wu Han written by Clive Ansley and published by . This book was released on with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Heresy of Wu Han

Author : Clive Malcolm Ansley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Heresy of Wu Han written by Clive Malcolm Ansley and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hai Jui's Dismissal

Author : Han Wu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Hai Jui's Dismissal written by Han Wu and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drama in the People's Republic of China

Author : Constantine Tung
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887063893
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (638 download)

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Download or read book Drama in the People's Republic of China written by Constantine Tung and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book ever published in the West on drama in the People's Republic of China. The plays, playwrights, theories, and performances range from the play that inflamed the Cultural Revolution to a post-Mao satiric drama that upset party leaders; from Jiang Qing's drama theory for her model plays to the discovery of Bertolt Brecht; from the problems and dilemmas that confront theater reform in the post-Mao era to the performance of Ibsen's Peer Gynt and Viennese operettas; and from a historical play glorifying Mao's supremacy to a playwright calling for individualism and women's rights. This book not only depicts aspects of drama in the People's Republic of China, it also provides analyses of the political and social conditions that shaped and are represented in this drama.

The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama

Author : Rudolf G. Wagner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520337816
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama written by Rudolf G. Wagner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's "Great Leap Forward" of 1958-1961 was a time of official rejoicing over the achievements of Communism, but it was also a time of immense suffering. Growing dissent among intellectuals stimulated creativity as writers sought to express both their hope for the success of the revolution and their dissatisfaction with the Party leadership and policies. But the uneasy political climate and the state's control over literature prevented writers from directly addressing the compelling problems of the time. Rather, they resorted to a variety of sophisticated and time-honored forms for airing their grievances, including the historical drama. Rudolf Wagner examines three of these plays written and performed between 1958 and 1963 in an effort to decode their hidden political and cultural meanings. He also provides a broad survey of the politics of the historical drama in China, suggesting further avenues of inquiry into the relationship between literature and the state. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Autocracy and China's Rebel Founding Emperors

Author : Anita M. Andrew
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847695805
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Autocracy and China's Rebel Founding Emperors written by Anita M. Andrew and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of 'ruler' was Mao Zedong? Utilizing a rich mix of analysis and new translations, this book examines other imperial predecessors and the elements linking Mao and Ming Taizu, the fourteenth-century peasant rebel who founded the Ming dynasty, as well as critiques of Western and Chinese scholarship. The book then presents translations with commentary of PRC scholars on Taizu and Mao, showing the evolution in Chinese though toward both rulers from the Cultural Revolution to the Deng Xiaoping reform era.

Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons

Author : Andreas Leutzsch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429018991
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons written by Andreas Leutzsch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical parallels, analogies, anachronisms and metaphors to the past play a crucial role in political speeches, historical narratives, iconography, movies and newspapers on a daily basis. They frame, articulate and represent a specific understanding of history and can be used not only to construct but also to rethink historical continuity. Almost-forgotten or sleeping history can be revived to legitimize an imagined future in a political discourse today. History can hardly be neutral or factual because it depends on the historian’s, as well the people’s, perspective as to what kind of events and sources they combine to make history meaningful. Analysing historical analogies – as embedded in narratives and images of the past – enables us to understand how history and collective memory are managed and used for political purposes and to provide social orientation in time and space. To rethink theories of history, iconology and collective memory, the authors of this volume discuss a variety of cases from Hong Kong, China and Europe.

Crimes against History

Author : Antoon De Baets
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351329839
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Crimes against History written by Antoon De Baets and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crimes against History takes a global approach to the extreme forms of censorship to which history and historians have been subjected through the ages. The book opens by considering the varieties of censorship, from suppression, dismissal, and defamation to persecution and murder. Part I, "Kill switch," tells the tragic story of how the censorship of history has sometimes turned into deadly crimes against history, with chapters looking at topics such as historians and archivists being killed for political reasons, attacks by political leaders on historians, iconoclastic breaks with the past, and fake news. Part II, "Fragile freedom," reverses the perspective and examines how the censorship of history has backfired. Chapters consider the subversive power of historical analogies and resistance to the censorship of history. The book also contains a "Provisional memorial for history producers killed for political reasons (from ancient times until 2017)". It is a double tribute: to the history producers who were killed and to those who mustered the courage to resist the blows of censorship. Comparing case studies from across the world and written from a human rights perspective, Crimes against History is an essential resource for anyone interested in how deeply history and politics influence each other, as well as for anyone wanting a fuller view of the history of history.

Using the Past to Serve the Present

Author : Jonathan Unger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317452720
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Using the Past to Serve the Present written by Jonathan Unger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An historiographical examination of the political debates of the 1980s over despotism in Chinese history and over Party history. The extent of popular culture and its reinterpretation of history is also assessed, as governmental control of the media has decreased.

Wu Han

Author : James Pusey
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684171644
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Wu Han written by James Pusey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Wu's satirical writings from the Kuomintang period up through the 1960s. Wu was part of the anti-party literary campaign from 1959 through 1965.

Power and Protest

Author : Jeremi Suri
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674256999
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Power and Protest written by Jeremi Suri and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a brilliantly-conceived book, Jeremi Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into a truly international perspective in the first study to examine the connections between great power diplomacy and global social protest. Profoundly disturbed by increasing social and political discontent, Cold War powers united on the international front, in the policy of detente. Though reflecting traditional balance of power considerations, detente thus also developed from a common urge for stability among leaders who by the late 1960s were worried about increasingly threatening domestic social activism. In the early part of the decade, Cold War pressures simultaneously inspired activists and constrained leaders; within a few years activism turned revolutionary on a global scale. Suri examines the decade through leaders and protesters on three continents, including Mao Zedong, Charles de Gaulle, Martin Luther King Jr., Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He describes connections between policy and protest from the Berkeley riots to the Prague Spring, from the Paris strikes to massive unrest in Wuhan, China. Designed to protect the existing political order and repress movements for change, detente gradually isolated politics from the public. The growth of distrust and disillusion in nearly every society left a lasting legacy of global unrest, fragmentation, and unprecedented public skepticism toward authority.

Henry Kissinger and the American Century

Author : Jeremi Suri
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674281950
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Henry Kissinger and the American Century written by Jeremi Suri and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Jeremi Suri offers a thought-provoking, interpretive study of one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the twentieth century. Drawing on research in more than six countries in addition to extensive interviews with Kissinger and others, Suri analyzes the sources of Kissinger's ideas and power and explains why he pursued the policies he did. Kissinger's German-Jewish background, fears of democratic weakness, belief in the primacy of the relationship between the United States and Europe, and faith in the indispensable role America plays in the world shaped his career and his foreign policy. Suri shows how Kissinger's early years in Weimar and Nazi Germany, his experiences in the U.S. Army and at Harvard University, and his relationships with powerful patrons--including Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon--shed new light on the policymaker. Kissinger's career was a product of the global changes that made the American Century. He remains influential because his ideas are rooted so deeply in dominant assumptions about the world. In treating Kissinger fairly and critically as a historical figure, without polemical judgments, Suri provides critical context for this important figure. He illuminates the legacies of Kissinger's policies for the United States in the twenty-first century.

China During the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976

Author : Tony H. Chang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313032505
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book China During the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 written by Tony H. Chang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-01-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most tumultuous periods in modern Chinese history, the Cultural Revolution affected virtually all Chinese people and all aspects of Chinese life, including art, music and drama, education, factory management, economic planning, and medical care. Studies of the Cultural Revolution, in both Chinese and Western languages, have burgeoned over the past three decades. This comprehensive, easy-to-use bibliography provides a guide to published English-language sources on the Cultural Revolution. With over a thousand entries, it includes books, monographs, dissertations, and audio-visual materials on a broad range of topics from the military, education, religion, and economics to foreign relations, population, art, literature, and drama. Including titles published through the end of 1997 and a few in 1998, the book provides a general overview of the literature on the Chinese Cultural Revolution and its impact on China. Its scope and coverage make it a useful resource for any library whose readers have an interest in modern Chinese history.

China

Author : Michael Dillon
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780700704392
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book China written by Michael Dillon and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new reference work contains approximately 1500 entries covering Chinese civilisation from Peking Man to the present day. Subjects include history, politics, art, archaeology, and literature to name but a few.

Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture

Author : Alessandro Russo
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012188
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture written by Alessandro Russo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture, Alessandro Russo presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism. Russo explores four critical phases of the Cultural Revolution, each with its own reworking of communist political subjectivity: the historical-theatrical “prologue” of 1965; Mao's attempts to shape the Cultural Revolution in 1965 and 1966; the movements and organizing between 1966 and 1968 and the factional divides that ended them; and the mass study campaigns from 1973 to 1976 and the unfinished attempt to evaluate the inadequacies of the political decade that brought the Revolution to a close. Among other topics, Russo shows how the dispute around the play Hai Rui Dismissed from Office was not the result of a Maoist conspiracy, but rather a series of intense and unresolved political and intellectual controversies. He also examines the Shanghai January Storm and the problematic foundation of the short-lived Shanghai Commune. By exploring these and other political-cultural moments of Chinese confrontations with communist principles, Russo overturns conventional wisdom about the Cultural Revolution.

Allegoresis

Author : Longxi Zhang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501711296
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Allegoresis written by Longxi Zhang and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it that a text, particularly a canonical text, is often said to contain a meaning different from what it literally says? How did allegorical readings arise and develop? By looking at such examples as Jewish and Christian interpretations of the Song of Songs and traditional Chinese commentaries on the Confucian classic Book of Poetry, Zhang Longxi discusses allegorical readings from a broad perspective that bridges the usual East/West cultural divide and examines their social and political implications. His approach is wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and cross-disciplinary, exploring allegoresis with regard to religion, philosophy, and literature. In his inquiry into allegory and allegorical interpretation, Zhang examines the idea of a self-explanatory text of the Bible as conceived by Augustine, Aquinas, and Luther; discusses the importance of the literal basis of textual interpretation; and takes up the question of moral responsibility and political allegiance. Zhang, who regards utopia as an allegory of social and political ideas, explores how utopian visions vary in their Chinese and Western expressions, in the process commenting on contemporary literary theory and political readings of literature past and present.