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Title

Memories of the Cultural Revolution : poems / by Luo Ying ; translated by Denis Mair.

Author

Luo, Ying, 1956-

Publication

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]

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Additional Authors

Mair, Denis C.

Description

xiii, 110 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"At once a work of narrative lyricism and an act of personal courage, this memoir in verse documents the human cost of a period of political turmoil in China's recent past. Luo Ying--the pen name of Huang Nubo, a celebrated poet, Forbes billionaire, and mountain climber--draws readers into the depths of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) by rendering its defining moments in his life with devastating precision and clarity. The narrative poems that make up Memories of the Cultural Revolution combine the ardor of youthful experience with the cooler insight of mature reflection, offering a nuanced picture of life in the midst of historic change. The "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" marked a critical passage on China's road to modernity, as momentous for the world as it was for one boy caught up in its throes. In poetry that juxtaposes the political and the personal, the social and the individual, Luo Ying depicts a time when ultraleftist mass movements and factional struggles penetrated the deepest level of private daily life. In bleak yet vivid portraits of his mother, father, classmates, and coworkers, he reveals how the period indelibly marred him. "I am a red guard just as I always was," he writes. Giving voice to the inner life of a man haunted by his experiences, Memories of the Cultural Revolution bears witness to a traumatic time when ideology threatened to crush individuality. Luo Ying's poetry stands as eloquent testimony to the power of the individual voice to endure in the face of dire social and historical circumstances." -- Publisher's description

Uniform Title

Wen ge ji yi. English

Alternative Title

Wen ge ji yi.

Subject

• Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976)
• 1966 - 1976
• China > History > Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 > Poetry
• China

Genre/Form

• History
• Poetry
• History.
• Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Poems translated from Chinese into English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Prefatory poem -- Translator's note -- Bare bones that were my father -- My mother, who was lame -- Oil worker Huang Yubao -- Huang Yuying, the surveyor -- Geology team member Huang Yudi -- My name is Huang Yuping -- Chairman Mao's little red guards -- The little red book -- The drill-team dance -- The mango -- The supreme directive -- Big-character posters -- Forging ties with the masses -- Harrying a landlord -- Smashing the "four olds" -- Sending away the no-goodniks -- Li Jun wrote a perverse slogan -- Self-study university of communism -- Blacksmith Liu -- Big scoop little scoop -- The blind man and his wife -- Ha Wengui -- A slut was paraded through the streets -- Today they're shooting counterrevolutionaries! -- Execution site beneath the wall -- A red guard was hacked to death -- The corpse in the bathtub -- Ma Siyi -- Two Yuan for one corpse -- The battle as Zhangzheng Bridge -- Cannon fire at Qingtong Gorge -- The armory raid -- Chen Xueru -- Liu Qingshan --^
• The outcome of the killings -- The army representative -- The worker's propaganda team -- I was an underground arms make -- Household registry check -- The book thief -- A secret listener to enemy broadcasts -- Critiquing absolute music -- Red detachment of women -- The spooky Catholic Church -- An embroidered slipper -- Chicken blood injections -- Red Kombucha -- Reporting offenses -- Xin Fei's bowling ball -- Carmen as told by old Yu Nian -- Li Bing has dropped out of sight -- Zhang Lin, who became top leader -- We Xing's sister -- He Lili's older brother -- "Nationally certified stage manager" Qu Ailing -- Zhang Binghe's smile -- Cult-revo as Liu Shengxin lived it -- Liu Xiaobao's marriage photo -- Liu Xiaoping's missing teeth -- Black-bearded Ning Han -- Song Qiang the policeman -- Zhang Yan's bald head -- Kindhearted Yang Lan -- Pretty Yang Xiaofang -- Na Xia's Muslim burial -- Li Hongyu the gout sufferer -- My teacher Tu Yiling -- The poet Qin Kewen --^
• Duan Zhongren, "the mangy dog" -- An amiable friend named Hua Xinhe -- Special-entry students at Peking University -- Duan Lei's death -- Building 26 -- Building 15 in Diaoyutai Compound -- The movement to cleanse the spiritual pollution -- Zhou Yi's sputum -- A worn slipper named Xia Zunbei -- The shrewishness of Ge Lei -- A burglar section chief in the central propaganda ministry -- Zhu Bing at our publishing house -- Liu Quanxing's battle -- A slick character named Wu Shimin -- The new press director, Wang Li -- Personnel chief Zhuo Wen -- The press that came back to life -- Minister Xie's cautious use of underlings -- The Red Guard gene -- Hoodlum syndrome -- A deviant Era -- Big honcho style -- Erehwon -- Singing red songs -- A monopolistic interest group -- The corrupt escapees -- Afterword.

ISBN

• 9780806149172
• 0806149175

LCCN

^^2015023714

OCLC

908374907

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library