Colors of Veracity: A Quest for Truth in China and Beyond

by Vera Schwarcz

Book Overview

In Colors of Veracity, Vera Schwarcz condenses four decades of teaching and scholarship about China to raise fundamental questions about the nature of truth and history. In clear and vivid prose, she addresses contemporary moral dilemmas with a highly personal sense of ethics and aesthetics.

Drawing on classical sources in Hebrew and Chinese (as well as several Greek and Japanese texts), Schwarcz brings deep and varied cultural references...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824838734
• ISBN13: 9780824838737
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"