Ying ruocheng autobiography books
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Ying ruocheng autobiography books
By Ying Ruocheng and Claire Conceisen
Reviewed by Ross Terrill
MCLC Resource Center Publication (Copyright March 2010)
The Chinese actor and director Ying Ruocheng (1929-2003) was a genuine article, funny, honest, self-aware, not a complainer.
He stands as one of the beacons of PRC cultural life. A Manchu, a Catholic, with eminent grandparents and a host of Western friends, Ying nevertheless lived on a knife edge of danger from capricious political winds. Voices Carry is a sobering book in that even well-connected Ying, long after Mao was gone, and while vice-minister of culture from 1986 to 1990, had to navigate political currents.
As an unabashed pro-Westerner, he was recurrently suspect.
Ying ruocheng autobiography books pdf
But, undaunted, he tells us at the end of his story: “In my mind, the new ideas all came from the West” (p. 186).
Few memoirs by public figures published in China are candid. Voices Carry is an exception.[1] The book is a gem, not to be missed by any student of Chinese