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As someone who has taught at a tertiary Institution in China (admittedly a provincial and not very prestigious one!) I find this extremely interesting. I was in China for all of 1990. The climate was marked by post Tienanmen Square tension, and the prestige of the Communist Party and Marxist ideas was very low indeed. There was also a very dominant rejection of Maoist type aesthetics among the students. Both staff and students placed emphasis on the formal features of poetry such as meter and rhyme. These are of course the features that most people find boring or uninteresting. But my students had had enough of social content and context. So my lectures on the sociology of poetry were regarded as a great disappointment. I did though score heavily with my rendering of Blake's Tyger. when asked to do a guest lecture on a course on English poetry. I had been told that Ginsberg had a triumph with his reading of this in his visit to Beijing. He did not understand though the source of the triumph and in his following lectures he brought up the subject of homosexuality and even I was told drew diagrams. His audience were suitably shocked. My informant who had been there did not elaborate on the content of the drawings and I was afraid to inquire. In any case I did what I thought was an imitation of Ginsberg reading Tyger, Tyger. I have since had the occasion to listen to a tape of Ginsberg reading Blake and I doubt very much if there was any similarity at all between our renderings of the great poem. But we take our triumphs where we find them and my version of the poem did to some extent make up for the abysmal flop of my lecture series. comradely Gary On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > “Over the past decade or so, there’s been a push on the part of the > Chinese Communist Party to retell its origin story, its founding myths,” > Blanchette says. > > One plank of this plan has been an effort to revive the study of Marxism, > partly to counter the spread of liberal and religious thought. Last year, > Peking University began the construction of a new building to house its > Marxism department -- ironically funded by a bank. > > full: > https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/04/29/neo-maoist-higher-ed-gaining-ground-china > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
