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...book, which accounts for its universal appeal," says Jo Lusby, head of Penguin's China operations in Beijing. But it can be equally argued that they perceived different components of the same thing: a searching song of the ascendant Chinese nation, seeking to know itself. The U.S. had its Whitman and Thoreau; China has Jiang, wandering the huge grassy expanses and singing of primordial elements - blood, death, soil - to which the nation is no longer attuned. "The heat caused by Wolf Totem ... is a symptom of Chinese people's collective depletion of spiritual belief," wrote critic Zhang Hong...
...Allen Ginsberg and I used to talk about this - our spiritual ancestors. We would make a little game of 'Who's on your family tree'. Allen had William Blake and Walt Whitman; he thought Blake, Whitman and himself were a direct line. And he lived that line, and to his dying day, he was studying Whitman and Blake, and his own work resonates these...
Faust also recounted how she unraveled the mystery of another Harvard graduate—Edmund Whitman, class of 1838—with the help of a former Radcliffe colleague last week...
...Whitman, the colleague informed Faust, was her husband’s great-great-grandfather...
...hard to solve one without dealing with the others. "You can't, for instance - if you take an issue like energy - talk about energy without talking about the environment, without talking about economics in this country, without the future and so on," said former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman. "One is linked to the other." She added that none of these challenges could be met without two-party teamwork...