Vera Schwarcz
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Vera Schwarcz's Degrees
- PhD Chinese Literature Stanford University
- Masters Chinese Literature Stanford University
Why Is Vera Schwarcz Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Vera Schwarcz was the Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University. Her BA was from Vassar College, with a MA from Yale, where she studied with Jonathan Spence, a MAA from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. From 1979 to 1980, she studied at Peking University as part the first group of American students admitted after the establishment of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and China. In addition to works of history, Schwarcz writes poetry.
Vera Schwarcz's Published Works
Published Works
- The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919 (1986) (216)
- The Chinese enlightenment (1986) (81)
- The Burden of Memory (1996) (24)
- Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory (1998) (22)
- Time for Telling Truth is Running Out: Conversations with Zhang Shenfu (1992) (14)
- Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden (2008) (9)
- Six Generations of Modern Chinese Intellectuals (1983) (8)
- A curse on the Great Wall (1984) (8)
- The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity: Cultural and Political Thought in the Republican Era . Edmund S. K. Fung. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xv + 319 pp. £55.00; $90.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19511-9 (2011) (7)
- Between Russell and Confucius: China's Russell Expert, Zhang Shenfu (1991) (5)
- The Mozartian Historian: Essays on the Works of Joseph R. Levenson (1976) (5)
- Wang Kuo-wei: An Intellectual Biography. (1987) (4)
- Behind a Partially-Open Door: Chinese Intellectuals and the Post-Mao Reform Process (1986) (4)
- Colors of Veracity: A Quest for Truth in China and Beyond (2014) (2)
- Circling the Void: Memory in the Life and Poetry of the Manchu Prince Yihuan (1840-1891) (2004) (2)
- Ibsen's Nora: The promise and the trap (1975) (2)
- Remapping May Fourth: Between Nationalism and Enlightenment (2021) (2)
- The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China's May Fourth Project . Edited by Milena Doleželová-Velingerová and Oldřich Král. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. xv, 348 pp. (2003) (1)
- Self and Deception: a Cross-Cultural Philosophical Inquiry . Edited by Roger T. Ames and Wimal Dissanayake. Albany: State University of New York, 1996. 373 pp. $24.95. (1997) (1)
- Out of Historical Amnesia (1987) (1)
- A brimming darkness: The voice of memory/the silence of pain in China after the Cultural Revolution (1998) (1)
- Willing in the Face of Necessity (1981) (1)
- TRUTH AND HISTORY: THE CHINESE MIRROR (2007) (1)
- 1. May 4, 1919: The Making of a New Generation (1986) (1)
- Truthfulness at Dawn, Truthfulness at Night: Reflections on a Common Striving in Chinese and Jewish Traditions (2009) (1)
- In the Crook of the Rock (2018) (1)
- Long Road Home: A China Journal (1984) (1)
- Dainty as Candle Lights (2014) (0)
- Port of Last Resort: The Diaspora Communities of Shanghai (review) (2003) (0)
- Philomela and the Risk of History (2014) (0)
- From the May Fourth Movement to Communist Revolution: Guo Moruo and the Chinese Path to Communism . Xiaoming Chen. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007. xi + 156 pp. $60.00. ISBN 978-0-7914-7137-1 (2008) (0)
- Review on Places of Memory in Modem China: History, Poli- tics, and Identity by Marc André Matten (2013) (0)
- The Rubble of the Past (1998) (0)
- Glossary of Chinese Terms (2005) (0)
- Cross-cultural Studies: China and the World (2015) (0)
- MARCH 1979: Formal Receptions, Informal Encounters (1984) (0)
- How Lu Xun became a Marxist: Conversations with Yuan Liangjun (1981) (0)
- MAY 1979: Official History and Beyond (1984) (0)
- Review essay: The intellectual as survivor-witness (1986) (0)
- Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai . By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. [Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. 428 pp. $45.00. ISBN 0 8047 1881 4]. (1992) (0)
- Wang Bing, Classical Chinese Poetry in Singapore: Witnesses to Social and Cultural Transformations in the Chinese Community. Lanham, Maryland et al.: Lexington Books, 2018. xi, 189 pp. Tables, Bibliography, Index. US$ 90 (HB). ISBN 978-1-4985-3515-1; US$ 85.50 (eBook). ISBN 978-1-4985-3516-8 (2019) (0)
- The Recording Angel (2017) (0)
- SEPTEMBER 1979: Through Space in Search of Time (1984) (0)
- How Literary Rebels Became Cultural Revolutionaries (1978) (0)
- A Secondary Bibliography of Zhang Shenfu on Russell (1991) (0)
- Dreaming the Song of Songs (2006) (0)
- 1. Singing Cranes And Manchu Princes (2008) (0)
- The Lonely Few: Human Rights and the Dreams of the Tiananmen Generation — Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China by Rowena Xiaoqing He (review) (2016) (0)
- Winter's Voice: Bei Dao (2022) (0)
- Mary G. Mazur. Wu Han, Historian: Son of China's Times. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. 2009. Pp. xiii, 515. $110.00 (2010) (0)
- MARCH-MAY 1980: A Foretaste of Leaving (1984) (0)
- EPILOGUE:: JUNE 1980 China Farewells (1984) (0)
- Introduction: The Particularity of Enlightenment in Modern China (1986) (0)
- International Relations and Politics (1984) (0)
- "L'intelligence du passé": Glimpses of Truth in Times of Darkness (2010) (0)
- The Idea of Wilderness (2017) (0)
- Gift of Utterance (2014) (0)
- 10 To Honor the Language of Truth: Reflections on Friedrich Nietzsche, Hayim Nachman Bialik, Chen Yinke and Zhang Longxi (2015) (0)
- No Auditors in the Courtroom of History (2014) (0)
- One Gaunt Brush (2010) (0)
- 5. Toward a New Enlightenment, 1928-1938 (1986) (0)
- "A Cigarette for Sukarno ... Brought Disgrace upon the Chinese People"—A Review Essay on the Cultural Revolution (2011) (0)
- Inheritance of Loss: China, Japan, and the Political Economy of Redemption after Empire, by Yukiko Koga. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. vii+307 pp. US$85.00 (cloth), US$27.50 (paper). (2020) (0)
- 2. War Invades The Garden (2008) (0)
- Conclusion: The Past’S Tiered Continuum (2008) (0)
- JUNE–JULY 1979: Almost at Home in China (1984) (0)
- 2. The Emergence of New Intellectuals:Generational Collaboration and Debate (1986) (0)
- The garden in its time: Visions of refuge in one corner of Beijing (2002) (0)
- Introduction: A Garden Made Of Language And Time (2008) (0)
- The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China's May Fourth Project ed. by Milena Doleželová-Velingerová, Oldričh Král (review) (2014) (0)
- APRIL 1979: No Longer Horseback (1984) (0)
- 3. Consciousness In The Dark Earth (2008) (0)
- Garden and Museum: Shadows of Memory at Peking University (1999) (0)
- Review Essay on “Lu Xun’s Revolution: Writings in Times of Violence", by Gloria Davies (2014) (0)
- TO CATCH THE ECHO: RETHINKING ACTS OF WITNESSING TO THE SHOAH (2015) (0)
- Design Principles for Social Impact Game (2015) (0)
- Intellectuals at a Crossroads: The Changing Politics of China's Knowledge Workers. By Zhidong Hao. [Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. 496 pp. $29.95. IBSN 0–7914–5580–7.] (2004) (0)
- 5. Spaciousness Regained In The Museum (2008) (0)
- Review of "After the Event: The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China, and Taiwan" by Stephan Feuchtwang (2012) (0)
- DECEMBER 1979–FEBRUARY 1980: Slowly Ripening Intimacies (1984) (0)
- Lawrence Olson (1918–1992) (1992) (0)
- OCTOBER–NOVEMBER 1979: On the Sidelines of Momentous Public Events (1984) (0)
- 4. Red Terror On The Site Of Ming He Yuan (2008) (0)
- Contributors (2004) (0)
- A Note on Romanization (1986) (0)
- Reflections on the Intellectual Climate of China (2019) (0)
- The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History by Timothy Cheek (review) (2019) (0)
- 3. The May Fourth Enlightenment (1986) (0)
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