Vera Schwarcz is Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University. She is the author of seven books and over fifty articles on Chinese intellectual history and comparative memory studies, including Time for Telling Truth Is Running Out: Conversations with Zhang Shenfu, published by Yale University Press.

薇拉-施娃茨的中文名为舒衡哲, 生于罗马尼亚, 犹太人, 现任教于美国康州威斯理安大学, 并从事中国现代史研究。1980 年曾作为首批美国留学生在北京大学中文系学习。她曾出版过七本书。

罗双妤，1984年生，本科毕业于重庆四川外语学院英语翻译专业，现就读于西南财经大学经贸外语学院研究生部，外语语言学及应用语言学专业，曾担任报社记者。

Emily Luo graduated from Sichuan International Studies University. Now she is a postgraduate student of foreign school of Southwest University of Finance and Economy. She has been a journalist for a short time.

Courage

勇

When ancients could no longer
paint flesh on sinews 
of speech, 

dan



lost its voice;

bravery became
a red dawn
braying,

dan



raw
sun,
brawn 
and 
audacity,

not the valor of veiled words.
			

勇者无畏，一身是胆
挺身而出，无须多言
似晨曦红日，
划破黑夜，
原始有力，毫无遮拦。
一切言辞皆枉然。