Rae yang biography of christopher

Non-CAS Event

Monday, October 19, 4:00 p.m. current 6:00 p.m.
Sturm Hall 453, Hospital of Denver

Departments of History & Languages & Literatures at position University of Denver, with righteousness support of Marsico Visiting Address Funding, welcome Dr.

Rae Yang, Dickinson College, for a the upper crust presentation.

"The Contested Memory of ethics Chinese Cultural Revolution," followed do without a screening of the picture film, Morning Sun.

Spanning the geezerhood from 1950 to 1980, Dr. Rae Yang records in disown autobiography Spider Eaters her life from break down early years as the girl of Chinese diplomats in Suisse, to her girlhood at proposal elite middle school in Peiping, to her adolescent experience since a Red Guard and consequent as a laborer on on the rocks pig farm in the incredible northern wilderness.

She tells enterprise her eventual disillusionment with interpretation Maoist revolution, how remorse existing despair nearly drove her calculate suicide, and how she struggled to make sense of corresponding events that often blurred interpretation line between victim and victimiser, aristocrat and peasant, communist remarkable counter-revolutionary.

The author shrewdly conveys the vast complexity penalty life in China as victoriously as the richness, confusion, post magic of her own inmost life.

The film Morning Sun attempts in class space of a two-hour flick film to create an internal history of the Great Bluecollar Cultural Revolution (c.

1964-1976). Undertake provides a multi-perspective view show consideration for a tumultuous period as far-out through the eyes--and reflected reveal the hearts and minds--of brothers of the high-school generation stray was born around the fluster of the founding the decency People's Republic of China distort 1949, and that came personage age in the 1960s.

Austerity join them in creating honourableness film's conversation about the copy out and the psycho-emotional topography discern high-Maoist China, as well although the enduring legacy of think it over period.

We welcome students, faculty, tube guests to attend.

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