Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States

ISBN-13: 9780765604460 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 312 str.

Laura Hein; Mark Selden

Opis

Considering the great influence textbooks have as interpreters of history, politics and culture to future generations of citizens, it is no surprise that they generate considerable controversy.

Spis treści

This is a collection of interviews with 26 writers of China's "zhiqing" generation, relatively young artists who participated in the Cultural Revolution as teen-age Red Guards, suffered through the subsequent rustication of intellectual youth, and eventually returned to relatively normal lives, but always with a tragic hiatus haunting their formative years. While one goal of Professor Leung is to introduce to the West an important group of writers little-known outside China, she also aims to succeed, through the interviews, in providing a special perspective on the devastating political history of China over the past 20 years through the eyes of its keenest observers and in offering a perspective on the social, political and cultural milieu of the period.

O autorze

Mark Selden, Laura E. Hein