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Superfluous words / Qu Qiubai ; translated and edited by Jamie Greenbaum.
Van Pelt Library DS777.488.Q28 Q287 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Qu, Qiubai, 1899-1935.
- Standardized Title:
- Duo yu de hua. English
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Qu, Qiubai, 1899-1935--Imprisonment.
- Qu, Qiubai.
- Qu, Qiubai, 1899-1935.
- Imprisonment.
- Communists--China--Biography.
- Communists.
- China.
- Political prisoners--China--Biography.
- Political prisoners.
- Revolutionaries--China--Biography.
- Revolutionaries.
- China--Politics and government--1912-1949.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Canberra : Pandanus Books, 2005.
- Summary:
- In February 1935, in a small town in south China, the Kuomintang arrested Qu Qiubai, an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party. He was executed four months later. Close to the end of his incarceration, in little doubt as to the nature of his impending fate, Qu spent five days writing Superfluous Words, his frank and uncompromising prison memoirs.
- This is the first complete English version of this important historical document, a translation and commentary that sheds light on the diverse interpretations and the strange history of this troubling and deeply moving work. In doing so, it provides an intriguing record of China at a time of change within the Communist Party and a moving testimony to a life cut tragically short.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Life and Some Times of Qu Qiubai 1
- Early Years 1
- Further Study and the Beginning of a Career 11
- Russia and the CCP 16
- Return to China: Work and Marriage 21
- Qu's Rise to the Top of the CCP 33
- Political Eclipse and the Second Stay in Moscow 39
- Return to China and the Cultural Front 45
- The Final Year 51
- Incarceration and Execution 54
- Epilogue - The Subsequent Fate of Those Connected To Qu Qiubai 61
- Chapter 2 Superfluous Words, Qu Qiubai, and the Twentieth Century 65
- Qu Qiubai and Superfluous Words 65
- A Superfluous Title 69
- A Troubled Mind 74
- What is Superfluous Words? 76
- Qu Qiubai, Superfluous Words and the CCP since the 1930s 84
- From Qu's Death to the Early 1960s 85
- The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) 93
- Rehabilitation - From the Late-1970s to the Mid-1980s 99
- Contemporary Criticism of Qu 107
- Reading Superfluous Words 112
- Personal Tragedy 112
- Qu Qiubai and the CCP of the 1920s and 1930s 118
- Superfluous Words and Twentieth-Century History 127
- Chapter 3 Superfluous Words 139
- Why Speak? - In Lieu of Preface 140
- 'Historical Misunderstanding' 141
- Fragile Dual Personality 147
- Marxism and Me 151
- Blind-Adventuring and the Li Lisan Line 157
- 'Man of Letters' 162
- Farewell 168
- Appendix 1 The Authenticity of Superfluous Words 173
- Appendix 2 People, Organisations, and Terms 183.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-221) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1740761200
- 9781740761208
- OCLC:
- 71242104
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