2023年9月22日,芭芭拉·米特勒(Barbara Mittler)的文章《太陽之後:緩慢的希望?通過中國革命重新思考持續的危機》(Epochal Life Worlds: Man, Nature and Technology in Narratives of Crisis and Change)發表在《帕爾格雷夫手冊》上 左翼極端主義,第 2 卷”(J.P. Zúquete 編輯)。 有關該出版物的更多信息
Publication "After the Sun: Slow Hope? Rethinking Continuous Crisis Through China’s Revolutions" by Barbara Mittler published with Palgrave Macmillan
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On September 22, 2023, the article "After the Sun: Slow Hope? Rethinking Continuous Crisis Through China's Revolutions" by Barbara Mittler (Epochal Life Worlds: Man, Nature and Technology in Narratives of Crisis and Change) was published in "The Palgrave Handbook of Left-Wing Extremism, Volume 2" (ed. J.P. Zúquete). More abour the publication
Abstract: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Chinese artists and intellectuals noticed that China was sinking into deep darkness. Faced with the country’s weakness, manifested in losses in the opium wars and even against its small neighbor, Japan, writers, poets, and cartoonists were reflecting on the best way to save China. One character who promised to bring back the light was Mao Zedong. During his lifetime, he was hailed as “The sun that never sets 永遠不落的太陽,” an epithet that continues to be evoked to this day, both in a positive and in negative sense—indeed it has become an important artistic trope. In this paper, I consider the legacy of this trope as the most important left-wing extremist symbol or propageme. Considering how it has been used by supporters as well as critics, I will consider the epistemic violence related to the religious extremism with which it was propagated. The verve with which it was disseminated during the heydays of Maoism explains some of its beguiling as well as traumatic effects. In considering artistic discourses during the long Chinese twentieth century—musical, literary and visual, popular, and elitist—this paper is an attempt to understand the power of left-wing extremism, or, in other words, the Maoist specter. It can be seen as indicating continuous crisis while at the same time continually instigating the making of ever new and utopian dreams—slow hope.
Hans van Ess, born 1962 near Frankfurt, grew up in Tübingen in Southern Germany. After studying Sinology, Turkic Studies and Philosophy at the University of Hamburg he spent two years at Fudan University in Shanghai before finishing a PhD on China’s history of ancient thought in 1992. From 1992-1995 van Ess worked as an area manager at the German Asia-Pacific Business Association in Hamburg and from 1995 to 1998 as assistant professor at the Institute for Sinology of the University of Heidelberg. In 1998 he took over a chair at the Institute for Sinology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. In 2015 he was elected president of the Max-Weber-Foundation – German Institutes in the Humanities abroad. Since 2013 he was Vice-President for International Affairs at LMU, since 2019 he serves as Vice-President for Research.
German sinologist Prof. Hans van Ess is the vice-president for research at LMU Munich. He points out that though German people generally like China, there are still many misunderstandings which are brought about by the influence of certain media. "This is the task actually of sinologists… to explain what Chinese culture is about," he says.