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Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory - Couverture souple

Schwarcz, Vera

 
9780300209785: Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0300209789 ISBN 13 : 9780300209785
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2014

Synopsis

In this remarkable book, Vera Schwarcz explores the meanings of cultural memory within the two longest surviving civilizations on earth. The author of previous books that the New York Times Book Review called "moving" and Jonathan Spence termed "subtle, elegiac, and elegant," Schwarcz finds a bridge between the vastly different Chinese and Jewish traditions in the fierce commitment to historical memory they share. For both, a chain of remembrance has allowed tradition to endure uninterrupted from ancient times to the present; for both, the transmission of remembrance and the bearing of active witness to the significance of the past are high moral values. From her unique standpoint as China scholar and daughter of survivors of the Holocaust, Schwarcz uncovers resonances between the narratives of Chinese intellectuals recovering from the trauma of the Cultural Revolution and the halting tales of her own parents.
Focusing on the transmission of cultural memory in these two cultures, the author examines how metaphor becomes an aid to memory, the role of personal remembrance in public commemorations, and the process of healing historical wounds. Combining poetry and historiography, oral interviews and archival documents, this book brings to life the struggles of Chinese and Jewish survivors who managed to cultivate memory through inimical times and preserve the continuity of their long traditions.

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À propos de l'auteur

Vera Schwarcz is Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University. She is the author of seven books and over fifty articles on Chinese intellectual history and comparative memory studies, including Time for Telling Truth Is Running Out: Conversations with Zhang Shenfu, published by Yale University Press.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300209789
ISBN 13 
9780300209785
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
246
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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