Published in 1924, The Magic Mountain is a novel of education, tracing the intellectual growth of a budding engineer through a maze of intellectual encounters during a seven- year sojourn in a sanatorium set high in the Swiss Alps.
Like many Chinese intellectuals during the recent economic boom, Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, a husband-and-wife team of writers, mostly ignored their ancestral homes in the countryside.
She recalled her conversation with a scientist who said that he was grateful to Mao Zedong for removing him from his campus and sending him, as Mao did millions of other intellectuals during the Cultural Revolution, to toil on a farm.
A friend, Robert A. Kotick, the chief executive of Activision Blizzard, an interactive gaming company, said he recently saw Mr. Staggs go a few intellectual rounds during a dinner at the home of Charles T. Munger, the longtime business partner of Warren E. Buffett.
President Trump lashed out at China for "relentless product dumping, forced technology transfer and the theft of intellectual property" during a speech at the United Nations on Tuesday.
"Lu Xun suffered considerably because Mao apotheosized him and used him as a justification for brutalizing intellectuals during the Cultural Revolution," Mr. Link said.
It grew out of discussions with Vasarely, the Hungarian geometricist, at the Café Fiore, a meeting place for intellectuals during the war.
It isn't hard to see how Calder has persuaded so many literary heavyweights to come to Parati (hometown, incidentally, of Thomas Mann's mother and a refuge for artists and intellectuals during the military dictatorships of the 1960s).
The Four Books is an Orwellian satire of life in a re-education labour camp for intellectuals during Mao's Great Leap Forward.
Caccini's gender affected her position in life, especially since the role of women was a hotly debated topic among Florentine intellectuals during her lifetime.
