Paths. Glossary

Yosano Akiko (与謝野 晶子 / Yosano Akiko) — A Japanese poet (December 7, 1878 – May 29, 1942). Her real name was Hō Shō. The epigraph uses an adapted text of her poem «Cowardice,» translated by Vera Markova.

Mei Lin, Chen Wang, Sergei Morozov, and Yeon-ju — Characters from the microroman «A Road of a Thousand Years.»

Yi Pin Guo (一品锅 / Yī Pǐn Guō ) — “First-Class Pot” — a small family restaurant in the Xicheng District in the western part of the Old City. It has been operating since 1983.

Guohua (国画 / Guóhuà) — Traditional Chinese painting. It combines the aesthetics of calligraphy, poetry, and painting, merging several artistic images at once.

High Hong Lin (海红林 / Hǎi Hóng Lín) — “Rainbow Forest” — a residential complex in the Xicheng District built in the early 21st century. Since the early 2000s, large-scale works on demolishing dilapidated buildings, relocating old factories, and greening the urbanized area have been carried out in the district.

Xin Wenhua (新文化 / Xīn Wénhuà) — “New Culture” — a weekly publication founded in 1952. The weekly circulation is about 120,000 copies.

Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders (侵华日军南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆) — Built in 1985 and expanded in 1995. The memorial is located in Jiangdongmen, one of the sites of the mass burial of victims.

Tiananmen (天安门广场 / Tiān’ānmén Guǎngchǎng) — A square in the center of Beijing, traditionally considered the symbolic heart of the Chinese nation. From April 15 to June 4, 1989, it became the center of student protests.

Dazibao (大字报 / Dàzìbào) — A handwritten wall newspaper in China used for propaganda, protest, etc. On June 1, 1966, after the reading on the radio of a dazibao composed by Nie Yuanzi (聂元梓), a graduate student and philosophy lecturer at Peking University («Resolutely, radically, wholly and completely eradicate the dominance and malicious schemes of revisionists! Destroy the monsters — revisionists of the Khrushchev type!»), millions of schoolchildren and students organized into Red Guard detachments and began seeking out «monsters and demons» to be eradicated among their teachers, university leadership, and then among local and city authorities. This marked the first stage of the Cultural Revolution.

Black Square — A suprematist painting by Kazimir Malevich, created in 1915. It is one of the most famous paintings in world art.

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