In 1974 the French critic Roland Barthes, along with a
number of other distinguished philosophers from France, visited China just as
the Cultural Revolution (which began 50 years ago) was coming to a close. In his diary he kept notes of the trip. Here is Barthes’ entry for Wednesday 17 April
while in Shanghai: “Nice weather.”[1]
[1]
Roland Barthes, Travels in China, ed.
Anne Herschberg Pierrot, tr. Andrew Brown (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012), p.
40.
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