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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/voice-and-salvation-listening-
 to-ba-jins-random-thoughts/
SUMMARY:Voice and Salvation: Listening to Ba Jin’s Random Thoughts (《
 随想录》）
DESCRIPTION:Held via Zoom - registration required: https://harvard.zoom.us/
 meeting/register/tJckcOCppj8tG9dB80Cih1ckbeOlhJ5-3mlg\nBa Jin (1904-2005)\
 , who called himself “the son of the May 4th movement\,” is a giant of
  20th-century Chinese literature whose writing inspired a generation of y
 outh to join the communist movement. Written in his later years\, Random 
 Thoughts is one of the earliest and most influential memoirs of China’s
  Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976. His memoir testified to the double
  sides of the remarkable “confession” promoted by the party-state duri
 ng this God-making movement. This talk examines the meaning of voice in th
 is text from the perspective of the phenomenon of voice in Chinese literar
 y culture in the 20th century.\nBy considering Random Thoughts as testim
 onial literature\, this talk presents Ba Jin’s strategy and ethics of w
 itnessing the silent moral “grey zone” under totalitarianism by recove
 ring his own voice. It explores what “telling the truth" – the keywor
 ds in Random Thoughts – means and the relationship between this truth-
 telling and his personal beliefs and his salvation in hard times that “h
 as no god.”\nCo-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
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