书名: Voices Carry: Behind Bars and Backstage during China's Revolution and Reform (Asian Voices)
作者: Ying Ruocheng (Author), Claire Conceison (Author)
出版社: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; illustrated edition (October 28, 2008)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0742555542
ISBN-13: 978-0742555549
Book Description
Voices Carry is the riveting autobiography of one of China's most prominent citizens of the twentieth century. Beginning with his imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution, Ying Ruocheng's narrative takes us through unexpectedly amusing adventures during his incarceration before flashing back to his childhood and the legacy of his elite Manchu Catholic family. An internationally renowned actor, director, and translator, Ying also held a high government post as vice minister of culture before and during the Tian'anmen Square massacre. Detailing his experiences as a student and actor during China's civil war and revolution, as well as episodes ranging from his partnership with Arthur Miller on Death of a Salesman to his roles in the films The Last Emperor and Little Buddha during the era of reform, Ying Ruocheng's memoir provides a rare glimpse behind the scenes of contemporary Chinese culture and politics.
Review
"This 'collaborative autobiography' reveals Ying as a complex and contradictory figure: Catholic and communist, artist and informant, actor and politician. Although Ying's insights from within the Cultural Revolution are fascinating, of equal value are both his view of the US and the echoes of the history of modern China as filtered through his personal history--not to mention his wit and warmth. This book will prove of interest far beyond theater and Asian studies. Highly recommended." -- July 2009, CHOICE
"This autobiography of Ying Ruocheng offers us a rare treat: a completely new vantage point from which to view twentieth-century China. Ying was a Manchu and a Catholic, an actor and a translator, a political prisoner and a vice minister of culture, as well as being a man of subtlety and wit. Claire Conceison has done us a real service in making this unusual life available to the general reader." -- Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern China
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作者: Ying Ruocheng (Author), Claire Conceison (Author)
出版社: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; illustrated edition (October 28, 2008)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0742555542
ISBN-13: 978-0742555549
Book Description
Voices Carry is the riveting autobiography of one of China's most prominent citizens of the twentieth century. Beginning with his imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution, Ying Ruocheng's narrative takes us through unexpectedly amusing adventures during his incarceration before flashing back to his childhood and the legacy of his elite Manchu Catholic family. An internationally renowned actor, director, and translator, Ying also held a high government post as vice minister of culture before and during the Tian'anmen Square massacre. Detailing his experiences as a student and actor during China's civil war and revolution, as well as episodes ranging from his partnership with Arthur Miller on Death of a Salesman to his roles in the films The Last Emperor and Little Buddha during the era of reform, Ying Ruocheng's memoir provides a rare glimpse behind the scenes of contemporary Chinese culture and politics.
Review
"This 'collaborative autobiography' reveals Ying as a complex and contradictory figure: Catholic and communist, artist and informant, actor and politician. Although Ying's insights from within the Cultural Revolution are fascinating, of equal value are both his view of the US and the echoes of the history of modern China as filtered through his personal history--not to mention his wit and warmth. This book will prove of interest far beyond theater and Asian studies. Highly recommended." -- July 2009, CHOICE
"This autobiography of Ying Ruocheng offers us a rare treat: a completely new vantage point from which to view twentieth-century China. Ying was a Manchu and a Catholic, an actor and a translator, a political prisoner and a vice minister of culture, as well as being a man of subtlety and wit. Claire Conceison has done us a real service in making this unusual life available to the general reader." -- Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern China
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