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Jiang Hua dead at 93
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Jiang Hua, who as chief judge of China's highest court oversaw the
trial of Mao Tse-tung's widow and other members of the radical "Gang
of Four," died of illness Friday at the age of 93.
The state-run Xinhua News Agency and China Central Television
didn't specify the cause of Jiang's death, in the eastern city of
Hangzhou, capital of his native province, Zhejiang.
Jiang ran the Zhejiang provincial Communist Party apparatus in the
1950s and grew increasingly influential until he was purged in 1967
soon after the start of the Cultural Revolution, Mao's experiment
with radical communism that ...
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Karel Capek's Legacy
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; TOWARD THE RADICAL CENTER A Karel Capek Reader Edited by Peter Kussi Translated...23.95 WAR WITH THE NEWTS By Karel Capek Translated from the Czech by Ewald...Meteor, An Ordinary Life By Karel Capek Translated from the Czech by M...
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Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Capek Reader.
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...it had been a long death for Karel Capek. His heart had broken the moment...the mouth; like Czechoslovakia, Karel Capek seemed irrecoverable. This has...in Toward the Radical Center. A Karel Capek Reader, published in the United...
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The birth of the robot Karel Capek's urgent visions retain their grip. The novelist Ivan Klima celebrates his Bohemian ancestor
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...theatre in the country, performed a Karel Capek play with the strange title R...quite three months later, and Karel Capek on 9 January 1890. Although all...the people. Finally, there was Karel Capek. At a very early age - he was...
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COLUMN: Karel Capek and the individual revolution
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...To borrow a metaphor that the brilliant Czech writer, Karel Capek, used in 1925, mass evolves slowly, but the atoms that...George W. Bush. We lack, to borrow another phrase from Capek, intellectual goodwill. To have this is not to take...
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Capek's Hordubal and Dostoevsky's The Double: Madness and free-indirect discourse
Magazine article from: Comparative Literature
; ...everything else slides off. -Karel Capek FROM JOSEPH CONRAD to Vladimir Nabokov to Karel Capek, great writers (often too close...1846) with the first part of Karel Capek's novel Hordubal, the first...
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Marie Sulcova: Prodlouzeny cas Josefa Capka.(The Extended Time of Josef Capek)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; ...biographical novels on the brothers Capek "The Extended Time of Josef Capek." Perhaps we should interpret...Josef's younger brother Karel, who died prematurely less...on her work on the brothers Karel and Josef Capek deserves to be crowned with...
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Arts: Postcard From Prague
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...coined in 1920 by the Czech playwright, Karel Capek (pictured right) for his play RUR, or...Nobel prize, and the Czech PEN Club, which Capek founded, honours his memory by awarding the Karel Capek prize. But if Capek's star has waned...
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Ivan Klima. Velky vek chce mit tez velke mordy: Zivot a dilo Karla Capka.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; ...Ivan Klima has been interested in Karel Capek since his university studies, when...Great Murders"; these words from Capek's brief satirical verse column...in July 2002, is entitled simply Karel Capek: Life and Work. But apart from...
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Apocryphal Tales: With a Selection of Fables and Would-Be Tales.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; Karel Capek. Norma Comrada, tr. North Haven, Ct. Catbird. 1997. 190 pages...choice of Apocryphal Titles as the latest new translation from the works of Karel Capek is most felicitous. As short stories in the technical sense, they connect...
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Korespondence, 2 vols.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; No wonder Karel Capek's correspondence has come out as the...house. She put her own letters into Capek's coffin, and so we take it on trust...important contribution to the knowledge of Karel Capek's life and work. B. R. Bradbrook...
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