Hispano-Hebrew strophic poetry

1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-46
Author(s):  
Ulf Haxen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Jewish Population ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
European History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Belles Lettres ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

The conquest of Spain by the Arabs, allegedly prompted by leaders of the Jewish population after the fall of the Visigothic regime, 711, opened up an era in Medieval European history which stands unmatched as far as cultural enlightenment is concerned. Philosophy, belles lettres and the natural sciences flourished in the academies established by the Arab savants in the main urban centres. In the wake of the cultural revolution, a new branch of scholarship came into being – Hebrew philology. From the midst of this syncretistic, Mozarabic, milieu a remarkable poetic genre emerged. The study of Mozarabic (from Arabic, musta’riba, to become Arabicized) poetry has proved as one of the most fertile and controversial fields of research for Semitist and Romanist scholars during the past decades.

New paradigm of national culture (on the scientific concept of M.Kh. Gerandokov)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-73
Author(s):  
Б.Б. Хубиев ◽  
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Х.Б. Мамсиров ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Alternative Assessment ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Scientific Concept ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

The article aims to reveal the scientific contribution of M.Kh. Gerandokov. in the study of the problems of cultural development in the region, a conceptual approach to complex issues of the theory of culture, ethics, aesthetics. Particular emphasis is placed on the scientist’s innovative contribution to the historical and philosophical science and cultural studies, putting forward a new paradigmatic concept of national culture. In this direction, paying tribute to the cultural achievements of the previous era, he puts forward the concept of the «incompleteness» of the cultural revolution and theoretically defends the ways of its new stage in modern conditions. It is not about the alternative assessment of the culture of the past and the present, but about the author’s ability to see cultural phenomena in dialectical development. A huge amount of historical archival and other factual material in the context of the new methodology is correlated with the historical reality of the results of the cultural revolution, which, as it is recognized, were not adequate to the content of the theory of the cultural revolution, which formed the basis of the paradigm of its incompleteness. The authors consider the theoretical concept of M.Kh. Gerandokov. as a scientifically grounded attempt to bring the national culture closer to the system of modern civilization. The merits of Mikhail Khamzetovich in the integration of science and practice of cultural and educational activities are also noted.

Public Space for Memory in Contemporary Civil Society: Freedom to Learn from the Mirror of the Past?

1999 ◽  
Vol 160 ◽  
pp. 1019-1035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary G. Mazur
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
The State ◽  
The Past ◽  
30Th Anniversary ◽  
Great Wall ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

On 17 May 1996 at the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Cultural Revolution, a group of about 40 people met in the number two crypt at Babaoshan national cemetery on the western outskirts of Beijing where the ashes of China's highest elite are interred. They met at that particular time in memory of four men who had been declared traitors and enemies of the state in 1966 at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. In this crypt are kept the ashes of three of the men, Deng Tuo, Wu Han and Liu Ren. The ashes of the fourth, Liao Mosha, were scattered, according to his wishes, at the foot of a tree beneath the Great Wall.

A Collective ‘I’ and Its Contending Readings

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-138
Author(s):  
Jing Meng
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Television Drama ◽  
The Past ◽  
Collective Imagination ◽  
Party State ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

Chapter 5 investigates the television serial drama Sent-Down Youth to discover how personal memories are used to provide pedagogical lessons and to build up a collective imagination of the past. The television drama is presented as a critique of the Cultural Revolution against the backdrop of the rising fever for the ‘Red Culture’ campaign in Chongqing, but it also exalts the idealism and altruism of the Cultural Revolution generation and criticizes materialism in contemporary society. Socialism here is associated with idealism, collectivism, and passion. However, the audience may also apply their understandings of the political context and personal memories to decode the representation, producing diversified and contested readings of the television drama. Television—being state owned and the mouthpiece of the party-state—both limits and enables the proliferation of multiple personal memories and discourses about the past and the present.

Powerful Speech: Remembering the Long Cultural Revolution in Yunnan

Inner Asia ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-182
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
State Power ◽  
The Past ◽  
Northwest Yunnan ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Mao Era ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

AbstractIn anthropological and historical accounts of the Maoist period, memory emerges as both a method and a problem for research. This article explores Nusu elders memories of the Mao era in the highlands of northwest Yunnan, along the Burmese border. Nusu refer to the bitter events of 1958 to roughly 1978 collectively as the Cultural Revolution . Their autobiographical speech blends the socialist genre of speaking bitterness with distinctly Nusu forms of lament. Their strategies of memory in particular, their counter-chronological narratives, strategic omissions, and reinventions of the past evade questions of guilt to assert themselves instead as victims. This article traces the internationalisation of state power and appropriation of state rhetoric in Nusu elders memories of the Long Cultural Revolution in Yunnan.

Fragmented Memories and Screening Nostalgia for the Cultural Revolution

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Meng
Keyword(s):  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
New Wave ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Official History ◽  
Cultural Forces ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

This book explores the way personal memories and micro-narratives of the Cultural Revolution are represented in post-2001 films and television dramas in mainland China, unravelling the complex political, social and cultural forces imbricated within the personalized narrative modes of remembering the past in postsocialist China. While representations of personal stories mushroomed after the Culture Revolution, the deepened marketization and privatization after 2001 have triggered a new wave of representations of personal memories on screen, which divert from those earlier allegorical narratives and are more sentimental, fragmented and nostalgic. The personalized reminiscences of the past suggest an alternative narrative to official history and grand narratives, and at the same time, by promoting the sentiment of nostalgia, they also become a marketing strategy. Rather than perceiving the rising micro-narratives as either homogeneous or autonomous, this book argues that they often embody disparate qualities and potentials. Moreover, the various micro-narratives and personal memories at play facilitate fresh understandings of China’s socialist past and postsocialist present: the legacies of socialism continue to influence China, constituting the postsocialist reality that accommodates different ideologies and temporalities.

Post-trauma Narrative

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
Jing Meng
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Trauma Narratives ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Trauma Narrative ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

Chapter 4 further explores fragmented memories in post-trauma narratives in Red Amnesia, Shanghai Story, and Blue Sky Bones. In these post-trauma films, the past penetrates the present, constituting a postsocialist reality that accommodates different ideologies and temporalities. There is a tension between amnesia and remembrance, between the past in demolition and the present in reconstruction in contemporary China. The repression of the past in turn causes the resurfacing of unwelcome memories of past trauma. To many of the Cultural Revolution Generation, the lingering pain of the past still haunts the present and becomes a form of belated, persisting tragedy for their sons and daughters. Different from previous traumatic narratives that conclude the trauma in the past tense, post-trauma narratives unveil the continuity between the past and the present. Just like the prefix ‘post-’ in postsocialism, post-trauma implies a reconfiguration of trauma rather than a complete break from it.

Can Private Museums Offer Space for Alternative History?

2019 ◽  
pp. 80-112
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
The Past ◽  
Private Museums ◽  
Cluster A ◽  
Intellectual Integrity ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

This chapter examines the Red Era series at the Jianchuan Museum Cluster, a privately-owned complex of museums not far from Chengdu. Denton analyzes the curatorial techniques used in the exhibits and the ways they negotiate commercial interests, a sense of intellectual integrity to be true to the past, and state imposed limits on how the Cultural Revolution can be remembered in China.

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