A BRIMMING DARKNESS - THE VOICE OF MEMORY THE SILENCE OF PAIN IN CHINA AFTER THE CULTURAL-REVOLUTION

Authors
SCHWARCZ V
Citation
V. Schwarcz, A BRIMMING DARKNESS - THE VOICE OF MEMORY THE SILENCE OF PAIN IN CHINA AFTER THE CULTURAL-REVOLUTION, Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars, 30(1), 1998, pp. 46-54
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Area Studies
Journal title
Bulletin of concerned Asian scholars → ACNP
ISSN journal
00074810
Volume
30
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
46 - 54
Database
ISI
SICI code
0007-4810(1998)30:1<46:ABD-TV>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
The Cultural Revolution in China brought many kinds of pain. This essa y explores one dimension of that grief: the linguistic and bodily pers ecution of the niugui sheshen-individuals who were dehumanized by bein g called ''ox monsters'' and ''snake spirits.'' Through an exploration of the memoir literature of the 1980s, the author probes both the rec ollections and silences of intellectuals scorched by the last decade o f Maoism.