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Article: Grass Soup.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
- Author:
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It is an irony of contemporary times that many scholars and commentators who have experienced little or no genuine adversity brim with resentment against society or even civilization itself, while writers and statesmen who have endured stints as prisoners of conscience usually eschew polarizing judgments in favor of nuanced and insightful reflections on social and cultural problems. On the one hand, recent conflicts in the Balkans and central Africa illustrate how magnified grievances and political opportunism can drum up dormant ethnic tensions to a fever pitch, while on the other, the peaceful emergence of a society from injustice led by a former political prisoner like ...
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... ... collision course. On a cold afternoon in January 1961, Zhang Xianliang approached the door of an earthen hut in a tiny Chinese village ... hungry people reduced to eating rice husks, hemp leaves, grass soup, toads, rats, body lice, and even their own dead. Scholars ...
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