Vera Schwarcz
Biographic Data
| ID | 333589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vera Schwarcz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vera |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwarcz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARCZ V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
The Recording Angel
First published in 1987 and now considered a classic, The Recording Angel charts the ways in which the phonograph and its cousins have transformed our culture. In a new Afterword, Evan Eisenberg shows how digital technology, file trading, and other recent developments are accelerating or reversing these trends. Influential and provocative, The Recording Angel is required reading for anyone who cares about the effect recording has had and will hav…
To Catch the Echo: Rethinking Acts of Witnessing to the Shoah
In light of recent revelations about global ignorance and disbelief regarding the Holocaust, first-hand testimonies acquire fresh significance. Two disparate books frame this discussion of how writings by survivors serve to deepen our understanding of the Shoah. Otto Dov Kulka's memoir, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death, is a carefully crafted account by a professional historian who survived as a child in Auschwitz. Thomas Trezise's work, Wit…
Winter's Voice: Bei Dao
i a.j. letters letters Many Worlds In his editor's note in the January 2009 issue ofWorld LiteratureToday, Daniel Simon quotes David Dam rosch's essay (WLT,April 2003,9-14) inwhich he speaks about "World Literature" as a body of writings "wherebywriters frame theirrespec tive cultures as 'windows on the world.'" Simon finally asks: "How do we readworld literature,then?" I think his own answer?"start ingwith the one right outside our window"?is qu…
Poetry
Hinges PillarsSpectralAt the Russian Compound Beit Safafa Sunset UntitledSimchas Torah Teshuvah A Twentieth Century LandscapeAnother Dove Sons of RamAbraham Abulafia
Poetry
Before I Knew Shabbat Desire for WordsMoving a Large Library from My Apartment after 28 Years A Hope for Reincarnation Involving Significant Others
Truth and History: The Chinese Mirror
Recording Angel
A brimming darkness: The voice of memory/the silence of pain in China after the Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution in China brought many kinds of pain. This essay explores one dimension of that grief: the linguistic and bodily persecution of the niugui sheshen—individuals who were dehumanized by being called “ox monsters” and “snake spirits.” Through an exploration of the memoir literature of the 1980s, the author probes both the recollections and silences of intellectuals scorched by the last decade of Maoism
The Burden of Memory: The Cultural Revolution and the Holocaust
The building of a Cultural Revolution Museum is not the respon sibility of one person. Everyone owes it to their children and the future to leave a monument to the harrowing lessons of the past. 'Don't let history repeat itself' should not be an empty statement. Everyone should be able to see clearly, remember fully".1
Short reviews
In an attempt to publish some reviews sooner after material comes out, the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars has added this section of short reviews of individual books, movies, TV series, and so on. For more information about short reviews as well as review essays, see the introduction to the list of books to review on p. 92 of this issue
Time for Telling Truth is Running Out: Conversations with Zhang Shenfu
Zhang Shenfu, a founder of the Chinese Communist party, participated in all the major political events in China for four decades following the Revolution of 1919. Yet Zhang had become a forgotten figure in China and the West--a victim of Mao's determined efforts to place himself at the center of China's revolution--until Vera Schwarcz began to meet with him in his home on Wang Fu Cang Lane in Beijing. Now Schwarcz brings Zhang to life through her…
Lawrence Olson (1918-1992)
Obituary| August 01 1992 Lawrence Olson (1918–1992) Vera Schwarcz Vera Schwarcz Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (3): 731–732. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800042455 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Vera Schwarcz; Lawrence Olson (1918–1992). Journal of Asian Studies 1 August 1992; 51 (3): 731–732. doi…
Amnésie historique dans la Chine du xx e siècle: Le regard d’un philosophe marginal
A Latterday Confucian: Reminiscences of William Hung (1893-1980)
Out of Historical Amnesia: An Eclectic and Nearly Forgotten Chinese Communist in Europe
The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919
Behind a Partially-Open Door: Chinese Intellectuals and the Post-Mao Reform Process
and whales, China appeared to be indeed. The nation had been cut off from the outside world for nearly three years by the chauvinistic passions of the Cultural Revolution. On arid shores once populated by Confucians, Levenson glimpsed two new adversaries: the older intellectuals who had been exposed to Western culture before 1949, and Chinese students born after 1949. The first, he saw as stranded while their accusers and persecutors were the equ…
International Relations and Politics
Long Road Home. A China Journal
The author describes her sixteen-month visit to Communist China, shares firsthand accounts of the Cultural Revolution, and assess the complex structures of modern Chinese society
A curse on the Great Wall: The problem of enlightenment in modern China
Six Generations of Modern Chinese Intellectuals
Two types of characters dominate the short stories of Lu Xun: peasants and intellectuals. The former have been the subject of much historical attention in the context of the peasant-based revolution of the twentieth century. The latter, although a major force in shaping the course of modern Chinese history, have not yet been analyzed fully or fairly in recent historiography. In Western scholarship on modern China, the problem of intellectuals has…
How Lu Xun became a Marxist: Conversations with Yuan Liangjun
After thirty years, we are beginning to talk again. The “we” has changed during these three decades. Western sinologists with experience in pre-1949 China and senior Chinese intellectuals whose major research was accomplished in the 1950s are markedly absent in this first round of renewed communication. Instead, a novel and delicate exchange is just beginning in Chinese universities, where we now have a chance to live and work for a prolonged per…
Willing in the Face of Necessity: Lu Xun, Brecht, and Sartre
The Mozartian Historian. Essays on the Works of Joseph R. Levenson
The Burden of Memory: The Cultural Revolution and the Holocaust
The building of a Cultural Revolution Museum is not the respon sibility of one person. Everyone owes it to their children and the future to leave a monument to the harrowing lessons of the past. 'Don't let history repeat itself' should not be an empty statement. Everyone should be able to see clearly, remember fully".1
Out of Historical Amnesia: An Eclectic and Nearly Forgotten Chinese Communist in Europe
Short reviews
In an attempt to publish some reviews sooner after material comes out, the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars has added this section of short reviews of individual books, movies, TV series, and so on. For more information about short reviews as well as review essays, see the introduction to the list of books to review on p. 92 of this issue
Behind a Partially-Open Door: Chinese Intellectuals and the Post-Mao Reform Process
and whales, China appeared to be indeed. The nation had been cut off from the outside world for nearly three years by the chauvinistic passions of the Cultural Revolution. On arid shores once populated by Confucians, Levenson glimpsed two new adversaries: the older intellectuals who had been exposed to Western culture before 1949, and Chinese students born after 1949. The first, he saw as stranded while their accusers and persecutors were the equ…
A curse on the Great Wall: The problem of enlightenment in modern China
Ibsen's Nora: The promise and the trap
The late nineteenth century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen both guides and haunts the struggle for the emancipation of women. His play “A Doll's House” remains after nearly one hundred years a most eloquent statement of the urge to stand free. Nora, the play's heroine, has inspired countless women in their fight for liberation
Ibsen's Nora: The promise and the trap
The late nineteenth century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen both guides and haunts the struggle for the emancipation of women. His play “A Doll's House” remains after nearly one hundred years a most eloquent statement of the urge to stand free. Nora, the play's heroine, has inspired countless women in their fight for liberation
Woman-Work: Women and the Party in Revolutionary China
Xiang Jingyu, one of the leading theorists of the early Chinese Communist Party, envisaged an alliance of revolutionary women intellectuals and labouring women to fight for liberation. This book traces the history of that alliance.
The Mozartian Historian. Essays on the Works of Joseph R. Levenson
How Literary Rebels Became Cultural Revolutionaries
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How Lu Xun became a Marxist: Conversations with Yuan Liangjun
After thirty years, we are beginning to talk again. The “we” has changed during these three decades. Western sinologists with experience in pre-1949 China and senior Chinese intellectuals whose major research was accomplished in the 1950s are markedly absent in this first round of renewed communication. Instead, a novel and delicate exchange is just beginning in Chinese universities, where we now have a chance to live and work for a prolonged per…
Willing in the Face of Necessity: Lu Xun, Brecht, and Sartre
Six Generations of Modern Chinese Intellectuals
Two types of characters dominate the short stories of Lu Xun: peasants and intellectuals. The former have been the subject of much historical attention in the context of the peasant-based revolution of the twentieth century. The latter, although a major force in shaping the course of modern Chinese history, have not yet been analyzed fully or fairly in recent historiography. In Western scholarship on modern China, the problem of intellectuals has…
International Relations and Politics
Long Road Home. A China Journal
The author describes her sixteen-month visit to Communist China, shares firsthand accounts of the Cultural Revolution, and assess the complex structures of modern Chinese society
A curse on the Great Wall: The problem of enlightenment in modern China
The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919
Behind a Partially-Open Door: Chinese Intellectuals and the Post-Mao Reform Process
and whales, China appeared to be indeed. The nation had been cut off from the outside world for nearly three years by the chauvinistic passions of the Cultural Revolution. On arid shores once populated by Confucians, Levenson glimpsed two new adversaries: the older intellectuals who had been exposed to Western culture before 1949, and Chinese students born after 1949. The first, he saw as stranded while their accusers and persecutors were the equ…
Out of Historical Amnesia: An Eclectic and Nearly Forgotten Chinese Communist in Europe
Amnésie historique dans la Chine du xx e siècle: Le regard d’un philosophe marginal
A Latterday Confucian: Reminiscences of William Hung (1893-1980)
Lawrence Olson (1918-1992)
Obituary| August 01 1992 Lawrence Olson (1918–1992) Vera Schwarcz Vera Schwarcz Wesleyan University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (3): 731–732. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800042455 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Vera Schwarcz; Lawrence Olson (1918–1992). Journal of Asian Studies 1 August 1992; 51 (3): 731–732. doi…
Time for Telling Truth is Running Out: Conversations with Zhang Shenfu
Zhang Shenfu, a founder of the Chinese Communist party, participated in all the major political events in China for four decades following the Revolution of 1919. Yet Zhang had become a forgotten figure in China and the West--a victim of Mao's determined efforts to place himself at the center of China's revolution--until Vera Schwarcz began to meet with him in his home on Wang Fu Cang Lane in Beijing. Now Schwarcz brings Zhang to life through her…
Short reviews
In an attempt to publish some reviews sooner after material comes out, the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars has added this section of short reviews of individual books, movies, TV series, and so on. For more information about short reviews as well as review essays, see the introduction to the list of books to review on p. 92 of this issue
The Burden of Memory: The Cultural Revolution and the Holocaust
The building of a Cultural Revolution Museum is not the respon sibility of one person. Everyone owes it to their children and the future to leave a monument to the harrowing lessons of the past. 'Don't let history repeat itself' should not be an empty statement. Everyone should be able to see clearly, remember fully".1
A brimming darkness: The voice of memory/the silence of pain in China after the Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution in China brought many kinds of pain. This essay explores one dimension of that grief: the linguistic and bodily persecution of the niugui sheshen—individuals who were dehumanized by being called “ox monsters” and “snake spirits.” Through an exploration of the memoir literature of the 1980s, the author probes both the recollections and silences of intellectuals scorched by the last decade of Maoism
Recording Angel
Truth and History: The Chinese Mirror
Poetry
Hinges PillarsSpectralAt the Russian Compound Beit Safafa Sunset UntitledSimchas Torah Teshuvah A Twentieth Century LandscapeAnother Dove Sons of RamAbraham Abulafia
Poetry
Before I Knew Shabbat Desire for WordsMoving a Large Library from My Apartment after 28 Years A Hope for Reincarnation Involving Significant Others
Winter's Voice: Bei Dao
i a.j. letters letters Many Worlds In his editor's note in the January 2009 issue ofWorld LiteratureToday, Daniel Simon quotes David Dam rosch's essay (WLT,April 2003,9-14) inwhich he speaks about "World Literature" as a body of writings "wherebywriters frame theirrespec tive cultures as 'windows on the world.'" Simon finally asks: "How do we readworld literature,then?" I think his own answer?"start ingwith the one right outside our window"?is qu…
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