Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHINA-WATCHING has always been as much art as science. In the early 20th century, China's splendid culture and baffling style convinced observers that understanding the Chinese meant first penetrating an "inscrutable" facade--empathizing with some elusive oriental essence. After 1949, the inscrutability became artificial. The communist revolution seemed...
It is well to remember all this in reading Robert J. Lifton's new book, Revolutionary Immortality: Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The work attempts to formulate what Lifton calls a "psychohistorical" model of China's Cultural Revolution, the baffling internal convulsion which has kept China on...
Lifton undertook his book to supply an ingredient which he felt was lacking in current accounts of the Cultural Revolution: namely the link between psychological phenomena and historical framework, between the feeling of individuals and the events taking place around them.
Les Murs ont la Parole n'atteint peut-etre toute son importance documentaire que pour ceux qui sont inities a la pensee de Stanley Hoffmann, mais memes les non-inities y trouveront de quoi s'amuser et s'emouvoir: ce "journal mural" d'une revolution estudiantine manquee nous adresse tous...
"Prenons la Revolution au serieux, mais ne nous prenons pas au serieux."--voila peut-etre la phraseclef dans ce melange de boutades malines, de jeux-de-mots quasi (ou franchement) obscenes, de citations heroiques. "Je suis marxiste tendance groucho," ecrit un etudiant de Nanterre; "Je jouis dans les paves," declare...