book-burning(n.) "焚书坑儒",指将被认为是淫秽、腐败等的出版物用火进行大规模破坏,始于1850年,源自 book(n.)和 burn(v.)的动名词。作为形容词,最早见于1726年(约翰·托兰是其受害者)。 What an irreparable destruction of History, what a deplorable extinction of arts and inventions, what an ...
From China's 3rd century BCQin Dynastyto the present day, the burning of books has a long history as a tool wielded by authorities bothsecularandreligious, in efforts to suppressdissentingorhereticalviews that are perceived as posing athreatto the prevailing order. When books are ordered collect...
JL Scarpaci - 《Journal of Interdisciplinary History》 被引量: 9发表: 2006年 Incendiary texts: book burning in England, c.1640 – c.1660 Given this essay's origin as a public lecture commemorating the 350th anniversary of the tacit readmission of...Ariel HessayonCromohsA. Hessayon, "Incendia...
Notablebookburningincidents:FollowingtheadviceofLiSi,QinShiHuangorderedallphilosophybooksandhistorybooksfromstatesotherthanQin—exceptcopiesintheimperiallibraryforofficialuses—tobeburned213BC.Thiswasaccompaniedbytheliveburialofalargenumberofintellectuals,whodidnotcomplywiththestatedogma Fahrenheit451 Accordingtothe...
TheChinese independently created an extensive scholarship based on books, though not so early as the Sumerians and the Egyptians. Primitive Chinese books were made of wood or bamboo strips bound together with cords. The emperorShih HuangTi attempted to blot out publishing by burning books in 213...
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Men burn books: burning is a manly. Burning is definite. It is violent. In violence there is no ambiguity. A pile of books on fire delivers a plain and simple message: thou shalt not read this book! Women bowdlerize books: sensitivity editing is hersterical (there is no misspelling). ...
Narratives of Landscape in Latvian History and Memory Our native hearth, Is burning in the sky, In order to come home, We do not open the door, But the cover of a book. We cannot learn from a snail, because home is not a refuge for us, But we will be a refuge for the... V ...
In full: Karen Louise Erdrich Born: June 7, 1954,Little Falls,Minnesota,U.S.(age 70) Awards And Honors: National Book Award (2012) Notable Works: “Future Home of the Living God” “Love Medicine” “Shadow Tag” “Tales of Burning Love” ...