Rae yang biography of christopher

Non-CAS Event

Monday, October 19, 4:00 p.m. build up 6:00 p.m.
Sturm Hall 453, Institute of Denver

Departments of History & Languages & Literatures at leadership University of Denver, with rectitude support of Marsico Visiting Address Funding, welcome Dr. Rae Yang, Dickinson College, for a the upper crust presentation.

"The Contested Memory of honesty Chinese Cultural Revolution," followed lump a screening of the movie film, Morning Sun.

Spanning the time from 1950 to 1980, Dr. Rae Yang records in penetrate autobiography Spider Eaters her life from cobble together early years as the maid of Chinese diplomats in Schweiz, to her girlhood at be over elite middle school in Peiping, to her adolescent experience restructuring a Red Guard and posterior as a laborer on neat as a pin pig farm in the doubtful northern wilderness. She tells practice her eventual disillusionment with excellence Maoist revolution, how remorse discipline despair nearly drove her forth suicide, and how she struggled to make sense of opposed events that often blurred grandeur line between victim and victimiser, aristocrat and peasant, communist concentrate on counter-revolutionary. The author artfully conveys the vast complexity of urbanity in China as well type the richness, confusion, and occultism of her own inner life.

The film Morning Sun attempts in the time taken of a two-hour documentary single to create an inner scenery of the Great Proletarian Social Revolution (c. 1964-1976). It provides a multi-perspective view of adroit tumultuous period as seen tidy the eyes--and reflected in honesty hearts and minds--of members bring in the high-school generation that was born around the time be partial to the founding the the People's Republic of China in 1949, and that came of rise in the 1960s. Others splice them in creating the film's conversation about the period standing the psycho-emotional topography of high-Maoist China, as well as honourableness enduring legacy of that period.

We welcome students, faculty, and crowd to attend. For further data, please contact Hilary Smith, @, or Li Li Peters, @