Anybody who believes the French are over-intellectual, under-macho gastronomes unwilling to, oh, say, lend air space to American fighter jets will think otherwise after seeing "Special Forces," a Gallic actioner as jingoistic as anything out of Hollywood.
Some Turkish leftists and liberals I've spoken to explain the arrests of journalists and intellectuals under the Ergenekon umbrella one of three ways.
In the same unsparing spirit that Wang wrote of intellectuals under Mao, Liu detailed the vanity, self-aggrandizement, and factionalism that beset the student activists and their intellectual compadres.
They include decisions of the Politburo, Stalin's correspondence with individual intellectuals, his responses to particular plays, novels, and movie scripts, petitions to leaders from intellectuals, and secret police reports on intellectuals under surveillance.
It has warned foreign governments to stay away from the Dec. 10 ceremony, and it has placed dozens of Chinese dissidents and intellectuals under various forms of detention or surveillance.
Hwang inventories the persecutions of left-leaning intellectuals under the South Korean regime of Syngman Rhee and the executions of political prisoners and innocent civilians to "prevent" their collaboration with North Korea.
Also striking, she said, is how Berkeley faculty then, and in the 75 years since the start of World War II, have supported intellectuals under fire in many other countries.
In the past two years Mr Kerincsiz and his Turkish Jurists' Union have launched a slew of cases against Turkish intellectuals under article 301 of the penal code, which makes "insulting Turkishness" a criminal offence.Mr Kerincsiz has confined his nationalism to the courts.
Raised amid the terror of Stalin's purges, when some of her neighbors were arrested and whisked away by the Soviet secret police, she came of age as a dissident in the late 1960s, spurred by the arrest of writers and other intellectuals under Brezhnev.
"The Burn" is a surreal, jazz-inspired riff on the plight of intellectuals under Communism, and "Island of Crimea" imagines what life would have been like on the Black Sea peninsula if the White Army had staved off the Bolsheviks there during the Russian Civil War and their descendants had flourished.
