History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Government In The Future (Open Media Pamphlet Series)

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Not his best work, but compelling nonetheless
"Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty"
A. Wexler
Chomsky being Chomsky- Brilliant

Government In The Future (Open Media Pamphlet Series)
Noam Chomsky
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In this classic talk delivered at the Poetry Center, New York, on February 16, 1970, Noam Chomsky articulates a clear, uncompromising vision of social change.

Chomsky contrasts the classical liberal, libertarian socialist, state socialist and state capitalist world views and then defends a libertarian socialist vision as "the proper and natural extension . . . of classical liberalism into the era of advanced industrial society."

In his stirring conclusion, Chomsky argues, "We have today the technical and material resources to meet man's animal needs. We have not developed the cultural and moral resources or the democratic forms of social organization that make possible the humane and rational use of our material wealth and power. Conceivably, the classical liberal ideals as expressed and developed in their libertarian socialist form are achievable. But if so, only by a popular revolutionary movement, rooted in wide strata of the population and committed to the elimination of repressive and authoritarian institutions, state and private. To create such a movement is a challenge we face and must meet if there is to be an escape from contemporary barbarism."

Noam Chomsky is the influential author of 9-11, Power and Terror and Hegemony or Survival, among many other titles.

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Another great one!.......2007-01-16

Chomsky is an excellent writer and linguist, and his books are always a pleasure to read. If you are interested in governing or politics, you may enjoy this book ('may,' as in 'unless your excessively conservative').

Not his best work, but compelling nonetheless.......2006-11-27

Although not his most groundbreaking work, Chomsky's "Government In The Future" is a quick and interesting read. An edited transcription of a speech he made in 1970, it's ideas and complaints against capitalism and military economy are still extremely relevent. In addition to his timeless arguments, Chomsky also takes a moment to briefly spell out exactly what he means when he calls himself an anarchist, and then takes time to flesh out the four different kinds of government that we may see in the future, addressing counterarguments to ones he favors with such promptness that even Plato would have to appreciate.

The only problem with this pamphlet is his massive reliance on other philosophers. While definately respectable in academic circles, his references to philosophers and thinkers of various stripes and centuries may alienate the casual reader.

It's a quick read, though, and relatively easy to understand.

"Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty".......2006-05-29

How unfortunate that, busy with business as usual, we don't devote more time to discusssing with those around us how our economic and political life could be. Perhaps it is too enjoyable to sit back and watch "American Idol".

Chomsky at his most provocative:

* Can we make modern society democratic?
* Can the U.S. population join in the push for change along with people in the rest of the world? Is it willing to take a chance to disturb the status quo? Can it seem the point of that, even with the inevitable errors along the way? Or have we been lullued into sheepish acceptance of authority and the way things are?
* Has hyping the need for the war machine indeed become the way to win our tax dollars and support for aggression? Does the war machine require the kind of efficent, centralized managment that corporate executives and lawyers best provide? Does the focus on war damage our cultural and moral life? Do the corporate executives bring with them a mindset that is profoundly anti-democratic, anti-libertarian, anti-worker?

This book may be short on pages but it's long on issues you can think over and discuss with others. The libertarian socialist position Chomsky favors may not work but responding to its challenges may lull you out of sleep. Our capitalist ways seem horribly incapable of addressing the crises of sustainability that have begun. Now is the time to turn off "American Idol" each week and instead read this book and talk with others each week about it. No one person can change the tide: not until each of us is an "American Helper" is their hope for our country or the world in the crises ahead.

A. Wexler.......2006-04-22

This material is a very short {67 pages} from a speech given at the poetry center NY, NY ..back in 1970. It is based on classic 'anarcho-syndicalist' thought, which the author makes no bones about. The likes of Von Humbolt and Rousseau are quoted {or misquoted} from which the author derives his own extrapolations. Unfortunately there are no prescriptions for how this 'perfect' society is to emerge.
It is difficult to rate. Since it lacks a logical conclusion I have given it two stars, though it is a well written agitprop.

Chomsky being Chomsky- Brilliant.......2006-04-07

Great speech. Hear the audio version at zmag.org (click on "audio")

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The Future of Socialism
Charles Anthony Raven Crosland
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Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left

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Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left
Alan M. Wald
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With this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U.S. Literary Left from the 1920s through the 1960s. Exiles from a Future Time, the first volume of a trilogy, focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. Exploring writers' intimate lives and heartfelt political commitments, Wald draws on original research in scores of archives and personal collections of papers; correspondence and interviews with hundreds of writers and their friends and families; and a treasure trove of unpublished memoirs, fiction, and poetry.

In fashioning a "humanscape" of the Literary Left, Wald not only reassesses acclaimed authors but also returns to memory dozens of forgotten, talented writers. The authors range from the familiar Mike Gold, Langston Hughes, and Muriel Rukeyser to William Attaway, John Malcolm Brinnin, Stanley Burnshaw, Joy Davidman, Sol Funaroff, Joseph Freeman, Alfred Hayes, Eugene Clay Holmes, V. J. Jerome, Ruth Lechlitner, and Frances Winwar.

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A Brilliant Vision of a Social Democratic Future.......2001-01-06

I read this book on my plane ride back home from college because I had become interested in modern Social Democratic theory over the course of the semester. What I found in The Future of Social Democracy is a collection of brilliant, vibrant essays from center-left leaders in Sweden, Canada, Costa Rica, England, Germany, and beyond. The argument for a market economy with the influence of the state to provide social welfare programs and mitigate inequality is spelled out clearly with examples from four continents across the twentieth century. The coverage of Sweden's welfare state makes an important point: The reason the welfare state is unpopular in America is that it only benefits the lower classes and the aged. In Sweden, the healthcare, public education, and social services are so good and so well-funded that all segments of society benefit. This is why middle and upper-class Swedes are so much more willing to support their country's welfare state than is the case here in the USA. Social Democracy is a wonderful system that incorporates the effeciency of a market economy with the benefits of a welfare state. As the conclusion of this collection points out, it is a system that is rooted in the basic human need to serve one's own interests as well as working for the common good of the society in which one lives. Anyone wishing to see an excellent analysis of the twentieth century and where our governments and economies are headed should pick up The Future of Social Democracy.

The Future of a Negation: Reflections on the Question of Genocide (Texts and Contexts)

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Confused French intellectual!

The Future of a Negation: Reflections on the Question of Genocide (Texts and Contexts)
Alain Finkielkraut
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The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust—and on Holocaust denial—from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe.

The book examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern European thought and politics, and recent “revisionist” attempts to deny its full dimensions and, in some cases, its very existence as historical fact. Finkielkraut’s central topic is the impulse toward “negation” of the Nazi horrors: the arguments made by many people, of varying political orientations, that “the gas chambers are a hoax or, in any case, an unverifiable rumor.” In addition, Finkielkraut looks at other instances of twentieth-century mass murder and at arguments made by contemporary politicians and intellectuals that similarly deny the full extent of these other atrocities. An original, fearless book, The Future of a Negation is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and of genocidal politics and thought in our century.

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Confused French intellectual!.......2001-07-31

This book focuses on Hitlerýs attempt to exterminate the Jews and on recent efforts by some French writers, principally Robert Faurisson, to ýnegateý this historical fact. Notoriously, a group of French Trotskyists has consistently backed Faurisson. So too has the US academic Noam Chomsky, who describes Faurisson as an ýapolitical liberalý when he has been well known in France as a pro-Nazi and anti-Semite since the late 1940s.

Finkielkraut explains that these leftists try to minimise Hitlerýs crimes in order to justify their dogmatic belief that all states are equally oppressive. They refuse to differentiate between fascism and democracy, between the Nazis and the Allies, or between Hitler and Stalin.

However, Finkielkraut himself ýnegatesý World War Twoýs main result, Nazismýs destruction. He thinks all politics still revolves round the question of racism, particularly anti-Semitism, writing that ýThe Faurisson affair is therefore situated at the core of our intellectual lives.ý This overestimate of racismýs importance corrodes all political judgments in the direction of liberalism.

For instance, the Introduction by Richard Golsan, a professor at Texas A&M University, describes all struggle against capitalism as anti-Semitic. He writes of Wilhelm Liebknecht, the renowned German socialist leader: ýWhile the logic employed by Liebknecht is not overtly anti-Semitic, it is implicitly so to the extent that Jews were associated with capital and thereby implicated in the abuses of the latter in the suppression of the working class.ý This pro-capitalist flipside of liberalism also appears in Finkielkrautýs sneers at ýdreams of revolutioný and his ritual slanders of the Soviet Union and Stalin.

History has moved on since Nazismýs destruction, and all Europeans have other problems to deal with now, principally the threat to their nationsý sovereignty posed by Economic and Monetary Union.

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The Holocaust and the Christian World: Reflections on the Past, Challenges for the Future

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In the wake of Mel Gibson's blockbuster movie The Passion of Christ, Christians have taken a hard look at their faith and the anti-Semitic interpretations of past generations. Guided by Christ's selfless love, Christians from Catholics to Pentecostals often express the desire to understand the roots of their faith and, by extension, the Jewish experience. Particularly troubling for many is the Christian role in the Holocaust, the attempt by the Nazis to exterminate European Jewry from 1933-45. In this gripping book, Christian and Jewish scholars present essays that detail the world's descent into the madness of anti-Semitism. Exploring the harmful effects of scholarly treatments of Scripture (minimizing or mythologizing the Jewish character of the Old Testament), Darwinian views of "the races," and Hitler's ghastly plans for the "Final Solution" (with widespread Christian silence), these essays give a brilliant overview while adding thoughtful detail. Includes timelines, resource lists, and Church statements regarding the Holocaust, the book is also packed with many archival photographs. Published in partnership with Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Museum, Jerusalem.

Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future (The Radical Imagination Series)

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Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future (The Radical Imagination Series)
Stanley Aronowitz
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Building a new platform for change, prominent social critic Stanley Aronowitz diagnoses America’s crisis of democracy and the dangers of the new authoritarianism. Aronowitz draws on his vast knowledge of history and political theory and from currents of political change around the globe, from the traditions of the European left to the newest political trends in Latin America that have challenged the “death of socialism.

Demonstrating why Democrats lose when they cling to centrism and compromise their core values, this book shows us what a new left party in America would look like in an era of globalization, terrorism, and a crisis of public confidence in government.

Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories

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Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories
Zheng Wang
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Centering on five life stories by Chinese women activists born just after the turn of this century, this first history of Chinese May Fourth feminism disrupts the Chinese Communist Party's master narrative of Chinese women's liberation, reconfigures the history of the Chinese Enlightenment from a gender perspective, and addresses the question of how feminism engendered social change cross-culturally.
In this multilayered book, the first-person narratives are complemented by a history of the discursive process and the author's sophisticated intertextual readings. Together, the parts form a fascinating historical portrait of how educated Chinese men and women actively deployed and appropriated ideologies from the West in their pursuit of national salvation and self-emancipation. As Wang demonstrates, feminism was embraced by men as instrumental to China's modernity and by women as pointing to a new way of life.

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A review.......2000-06-05

Wang Zheng¡¦s Women in the Chinese Enlightenment presents five personal narratives of women who were deeply affected by May Fourth and the political turmoil in almost the entire 20th century. In Part One of her book, Wang also launches her version of the history of China after the May Fourth era as the background for her oral narratives. Her textual history supplements what Gilmartin takes for granted in Engendering the Chinese Revolution, for example she explains and redefines feminism and its close relationship with nationalism in the May Fourth era, how feminism was used for political cause by the nationalists, the CCP and the GMD, and how the women¡¦s movement evolved and changed in different periods. In a way, she deconstructs the generalization of ¡§feminism¡¨ and ¡§women¡¦s movement¡¨. Moreover, she does not stop at 1927, but argues that ¡§feminism did not ¡¥fail¡¦ or disappear at that point.¡¨ ¡§Rather,¡¨ she continues, ¡§as a viable discourse, New Culture feminism continuous affected the historical processes of twentieth-century China. A whole generation of educated women with a new subjectivity were both constituted by and contributed to the feminist discourse in China.¡¨ (359) She asserts that those new women brought or sustained institutional changes and enabled Chinese women¡¦s social advancement in the first half of the century by pursuing ¡§independent personhood¡¨. Furthering Gilmartin¡¦s search for the ¡§language and rituals of women¡¦s emancipation¡¨ the CCP kept after 1949, she argues that the first Marriage Law in 1950 which was drafted by May Fourth feminists, the general secretary¡¦s speech in 1996 socialist-feminist visions of public kitchens, nurseries, and other social welfare facilities for women ¡§tell a story of continuous feminist contestation within the system of the party-state. (360) Women¡¦s issues such as women¡¦s equal legal rights have been incorporated in the political discourse because ¡§gender equality and modernity were cemented so fast by the New Culturalists that no Chinese ruling group claiming to lead the nation toward modernity has openly tried to separate them.¡¨ (360) She admits that the CCP¡¦s ideology became the dominant one, but she also attempts to show how women contested and negotiated their feminist interest within the dominant political discourse.

Even though Wang uses oral accounts of women to challenge the dominant official history of the CCP, she believes that the influence of the May Fourth era and liberal feminism is indisputable. Her goal is to ¡§highlight the unique experience of the May Fourth women and simultaneously illuminate the differences and similarities between Chinese and Euro- American women¡¦s struggles for liberation.¡¨ (6) I am baffled by the author¡¦s purpose. Even though she maintains that she is aware of poststructuralist criticism and counter argues that she is only concerned with ¡§what might have been useful for Chinese women in their struggle for social advancement and improvement¡¨, and that Western liberalism ¡§provided a discourse of resistance, facilitating Chinese men¡¦s and women¡¦s struggles against the hegemonic Confucian framework¡¨ and it was ¡§actively deployed and appropriated by various Chinese social groups in their pursuit of self-interest and national interest¡¨ (361), it seems that Wang takes in the story of women subordination and emancipation (as in Croll¡¦s book) without questioning it. I am not sure how much of the oral narratives is edited and rearranged to present that story that ¡§highlights¡¨ the May Fourth influence, but I suspect that she has overemphasized the power of May Fourth in some of the oral narratives. Also, I do not understand why the author needs to compare China with what happen in Europe and America. Is it to prove that women¡¦s movement in China take a path on its own? Or to show there that ¡§universal womanhood¡¨ does not exist? Or to argue that Chinese feminists were so much better because they did not embrace the notions of female inferiority associated with the sex binary as the West?

Wang¡¦s goal of writing the book is inspiring and ambitious, as she says: ¡§My study grew out of both a political interest in deconstructing the CCP¡¦s myth of Chinese women¡¦s liberation and an intellectual dissatisfaction with stories about women that lacked women as protagonists.¡¨ (2) Her method of using oral histories greatly stimulates my interest. By presenting an alternative micro-history, she is successful in debunking a macro-history and teleological view, one that does not contain women as agents or actors. The discordant noises in these accounts help the readers to rethink about the contradictions, to deconstruct and demystify what has been written, and perhaps to reconstruct a fuller picture closer to the ¡§truth¡¨. It is especially important in Wang¡¦s case since she thinks that the history we have now is male-oriented and it is necessary to supply what those texts cannot do. However, I somehow think that her combination of oral and textual histories makes her book less approachable. In Part I of the book, the author informs (mesmerizes?) the reader with her questions and arguments, after that it seems the oral histories cannot be read without the author¡¦s surveillance. (Not to mention that the narrative is translated, edited, and selectively presented by the author.) Furthermore, the author attaches her interpretation after each narrative, thus the reader is further subjected to the author¡¦s psychoanalysis of the narrator. The role of the reader as a critic is limited, and both the narrator and the reader have to entrust the author with the storytelling. Nevertheless, it is a relief to know that the author is well aware of the positions of the interviewer and interviewee, and the limitations and effects of oral histories. I am notice that the interviewees were all educated women who lived in Shanghai for most part of their lives, and they were included intentionally because they were eager to participate in history-writing (from the author¡¦s point of view) and the author believes that ¡§the richest and most colorful stories were told by those who had many accomplishments before 1949 but were reduced to marginal positions in the Mao era.¡¨ (123)

Wang is successful in showing the relationship between feminist groups and other political forces, the struggle of the women in those political forces, and the hypocrisy of the male leaders in the Communist party. Even though the discourse of women¡¦s movement was at first created by men, women were inspired by the man-made feminist discourse and responded to it actively. The author successfully shows their active participation and how they were very different from the new women images constructed by the male writers. (62) She also tries to show the conflict between the belief independent personhood and the dominant ideology and how the search for independence was reflected in the women¡¦s lives. This belief, together with an independent women¡¦s movement, was dropped after Marxism came into play and socialist revolution became the first and foremost goal. To me, it seems that women¡¦s emancipation had always been used to serve a larger purpose. It was used to overthrow feudalism and tradition when nationalism was professed. Only because the anti-oppression proclamation fit well in both nationalistic and feminist purposes that there were no obvious conflicts. Despite that, Wang demonstrates how gender hierarchy persisted even in the early 20s by telling the story of Lu Xun and his wife: ¡§the male champions¡¦ sense of superiority as well as their cultural entitlement to privileges unchallenged but sustained in an age of unprecedented agitation for women¡¦s emancipation.¡¨ She uses the history of the ¡§Ladies¡¦ Journal¡¨ to reveal the change in ideologies in the women¡¦s movement and how women¡¦s reaction to the publication affect the journal. ...................

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