Time for Telling Truth is Running Out / Mark R. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Mark R., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chang, Shen-fu, 1893-.

Chang, Shen-fu.

Communists--China--Biography.

Communists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Over the five years that we talked [octogenarian Zhang Shenfu] became the underbelly of China's history for me. . . . Zhang was like a broken mirror through which I glimpsed the fragmented reality of China in revolution."-Vera Schwarcz Zhang Shenfu, a founder of the Chinese Communist party, participated in all the major political events in China for four decades following the Revolution of 1919. Yet Zhang had become a forgotten figure in China and the West-a victim of Mao's determined efforts to place himself at the center of China's revolution-until Vera Schwarcz began to meet with him in his home on Wang Fu Cang Lane in Beijing. Now Schwarcz brings Zhang to life through her poignant account of five years of conversations with him, a narrative that is interwoven with translations of his writings and testimony of his friends. Moving circuitously, Schwarcz reveals fragments of the often contradictory layers of Zhang's character: at once a champion of feminism and an ardent womanizer, a follower of the Bertrand Russell who also admired Confucius, and a philosophically inclined political pragmatist. Schwarcz also meditates on the tension between historical events and personal memory, on the public amnesia enforced by governments and the "forgetfulness" of those who find remembrance too painful. Her book is not only a portrait of a remarkable personality but a corrective to received accounts and to the silences that abound in the official annals of the Chinese revolution.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface No Way In By History's Road

Introduction The Laughing Voice Of Zhang Shenfu

Chapter 1. The Making Of A Bookish Rebel

Chapter 2. Libertine And Liberationist

Chapter 3. An Eccentric And Almost Forgotten Communist

Chapter 4. Between Russell And Confucius

Chapter 5. In The Realm Of Red Dust

Chapters 6. Final Regrets, Final Retorts

Postscript To An Enigmatic Life

Notes

Works

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300160888

0300160887

OCLC:

1024008803