FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2980579993> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W2980579993 abstract "Wang Xiaobo, born in 1952, was an atypical member of the educated youthgeneration. Having returned to Beijing quite early (in 1972, at 20), and after afurther six years as a factory worker, he enrolled in a university at the almostnormal age of 26, in 1978. Like many others who shared his experience, it seemsthat he soon began writing about his life on a military farm in Yunnan, his appraisalof the ideology-driven totalitarian Maoist state, and his understanding of theintellectual’s role in the new, de-Maoized context of the 1980s. However,unlike almost all of his contemporaries, he did not publish a single piece of writingduring the decade of ‘cultural fever’ that culminated in the student movement.Having taught two years of secondary school after graduation, he left for the UnitedStates in 1984 and obtained a Master’s degree in East Asian Studies from theUniversity of Pittsburgh in 1988. Upon his return to China, he took up a position asassistant professor in the Sociology Department of Peking University, where heremained for three years, throughout the student protests and subsequent repression of 1989. It was only after leaving Beida for People’s University that, in thesummer of 1992, he finally decided to publish a novella he had been working on foralmost twenty years: ‘The Golden Age’. In the five following years, before hisdeath of a heart attack on 4 November 1997, he rose to meteoric fame in China andeven, to an extent, in Taiwan, where he won several prizes, and began freneticallypublishing novels, short stories and essays, some of which had been accumulating inhis drawers, others freshly composed.Why did Wang Xiaobo suddenly decide to enter the public sphere in this way?What was it in his writings that struck such a chord with the young and disillusionedChinese readers of the 1990s? This paper argues that, although there is no directconnection between Wang and the 1989 student movement, his decision to ‘speakout’ as he put it in his most famous essay, ‘The Silent Majority’ (April 1996) isrelated to the watershed of 1989: because his writing is both connected withthe spirit of the 1980s, and at the same time represents a break with certainnotable aspects of this spirit, in particular a revision of its views on dealingwith history and politics, on Enlightenment and on the role of the intellectual; itlent words to the feeling among young intellectuals that they had to invent a newmode of thinking and of public action. This paper will mainly draw on his essayspublished in the years between 1995 and 1997 in several influential intellectualjournals, such as Southern Weekend (Nanfang Zhoumo), Dushu, Dongfangmagazine, and others, and collected under the title The Pleasure of Thinking (Siweide Lequ). It will attempt to give a glimpse of the originality of Wang’s ideas inseveral key areas, to illustrate how Chinese intellectuals sought to reinvent theirrole in the 1990s." @default.
• W2980579993 created "2019-10-25" @default.
• W2980579993 creator A5014990127 @default.
• W2980579993 date "2010-11-18" @default.
• W2980579993 modified "2023-09-29" @default.
• W2980579993 title "Wang Xiaobo and the no longer silent majority" @default.
• W2980579993 doi "https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203842607-11" @default.
• W2980579993 hasPublicationYear "2010" @default.
• W2980579993 type Work @default.
• W2980579993 sameAs 2980579993 @default.
• W2980579993 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W2980579993 crossrefType "book-chapter" @default.
• W2980579993 hasAuthorship W2980579993A5014990127 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConcept C107993555 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConcept C11413529 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConcept C144024400 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConcept C166957645 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConcept C191935318 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConcept C2524010 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConcept C2779343474 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConcept C2779529714 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConcept C33923547 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConcept C41008148 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConcept C48103436 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConceptScore W2980579993C107993555 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConceptScore W2980579993C11413529 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConceptScore W2980579993C144024400 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConceptScore W2980579993C166957645 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConceptScore W2980579993C17744445 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConceptScore W2980579993C191935318 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConceptScore W2980579993C199539241 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConceptScore W2980579993C2524010 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConceptScore W2980579993C2779343474 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConceptScore W2980579993C2779529714 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConceptScore W2980579993C33923547 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConceptScore W2980579993C41008148 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConceptScore W2980579993C48103436 @default.
• W2980579993 hasConceptScore W2980579993C95457728 @default.
• W2980579993 hasLocation W29805799931 @default.
• W2980579993 hasOpenAccess W2980579993 @default.
• W2980579993 hasPrimaryLocation W29805799931 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W1518814113 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W1597410168 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W1968264087 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W1975659633 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W1994321222 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W2070694053 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W2128278297 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W219866878 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W2312853978 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W2331653845 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W261847452 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W269484782 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W276707271 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W2772164447 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W281416568 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W2337851114 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W2338613259 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W2398222716 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W2594937773 @default.
• W2980579993 hasRelatedWork W2738068762 @default.
• W2980579993 isParatext "false" @default.
• W2980579993 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W2980579993 magId "2980579993" @default.
• W2980579993 workType "book-chapter" @default.