Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural MemoryYale University Press, 1 janv. 1998 - 232 pages 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. |
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
How to Make Time Real | 19 |
THREE | 57 |
Burning Snow | 69 |
FOUR | 89 |
Light Passersby | 125 |
Conclusion | 179 |
Notes | 195 |
Bibliography | 213 |
225 | |
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