Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s

Your Face My Flag

Sabina Knight is the author of Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2012) and The Heart of Time: Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (2006). She teaches Chinese and world literatures at Smith College.

Sabina Knight

The Poet and the Historian: On Julian Gewirtz’s “Your Face My Flag” and “Never Turn Back”

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

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"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

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Sabina Knight is the author of Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2012) and The Heart of Time: Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (2006). She teaches Chinese and world literatures at Smith College.

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Sabina Knight

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The Poet and the Historian: On Julian Gewirtz’s “Your Face My Flag” and “Never Turn Back”