A brimming darkness
The voice of memory/the silence of pain in China after the Cultural Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8415403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vera Schwarcz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 46-54 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-4810 • E-ISSN: 1472-6033 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14672715.1998.10411033 |
| OpenAlex | W2317835697 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
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
Aesthetics · Art · China · Cultural revolution · Dehumanization · Grief · Literature · Memoir · Persecution · Political science · Silence · Sociology · Anthropology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |