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Nome canonico: Brysac, Shareen Blair
Altri nomi: BRYSAC, Shareen Blair
BLAIR BRYSAC, Shareen
Data di nascita: 19??
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Denver, Colorado, USA
Relazioni: Meyer, Karl Ernest (husband and co-author)
Breve biografia: Brysac was born in Denver, Colorado and graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University. While at Barnard, she attended the Juilliard School and danced as a member of the Jose Limon and Merce Cunningham Companies. After her graduation, she also appeared with the Paul Taylor Dance Company in Europe and with the New York City Opera.

In 1974 she began working for CBS News as a producer/director of documentaries for the network. Her documentaries 1968, American Dream, American Nightmare, The Cowboy, the Craftsman, and the Ballerina, and Juilliard and Beyond: A Life in Music, Once in Lifetime won five Emmys, a DuPont Citation, a George Foster Peabody Award, a Writers Guild Award, medals from New York and Chicago film festivals, and a special invitation to the Edinburgh Film Festival.

From 1985-87 she was first Program Manager for CUNY TV, the cable television station for the City University of New York and subsequently she was a member of the Media Faculty of the Borough of Manhattan Community College. In 1989, she founded and directed the Campus Programming Service designed to bring foreign programming to university television stations for which she received a Rockefeller Grant.

Brysac is a past member of the American Guild of Musical Artists, the Directors Guild, the Writers Guild, the Teacher’s Union, and Women in Film. She is currently a member of the Authors Guild.

In 1999, she was the co-author with her husband, Karl E. Meyer, of Tournament of Shadows: the Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia. It was chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize for "the world's best non-fiction book in English that seeks to deepen public debate on significant global issues." It was republished with a new introduction in 2006 by Basic Books.

Her biography, Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year and the German edition of the book published by Scherz Verlag was selected as one of the best books of the year by German reviewers.

Kingmakers: the Invention of the Modern Middle East appeared in 2008. Written together with her husband, it was chosen as one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post. Excerpts appeared in Harper's Magazine and the World Policy Journal. Her expanded chapter on Gertrude Bell was selected to appear in "Ultimate Adventures with Britannia".

Meyer and Brysac’s latest book entitled Pax Ethnica: Where and Why Diversity Succeeds has received support from the Gould, Carnegie, and Pulitzer Foundations.

Brysac has also been a contributing editor to Archaeology magazine and a frequent contributor to Military History Quarterly. Her articles have also appeared in The New York Times, The Herald Tribune, The Washington Post and The Nation.

During the fall term Michaelmas 2012, she was in residence as a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College, Oxford

Brysac's television appearances include Dance in America (PBS), WISC, WNYC, CNN and three hours on C-SPAN’s Book Talk.

She has lectured at universities and local libraries including the National Archives, the Library of Congress, the British Museum, the Newark Museum, the Explorer's Club, the Royal Asiatic Society (London), Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand (Berlin), Maschinenbau (Essen), the National Arts Club, English Speaker’s Union, Prologue Clubs (Florida), German Information Center (New York), Asia Society (Houston) and the German Cultural Foundation (Philadelphia).

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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race… di Karl Ernest Meyer

Fascinating account of Central Asia and the conflict to control the area waged primarily by Great Britain and Russia.

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gbelik | 2 altre recensioni | Apr 29, 2021 |

The China Collectors: America's Century-Long Hunt… di Karl E. Meyer

This was both fascinating and infuriating, not necessarily because of the the writing but the content. The China Collectors focuses on American collectors of Chinese art, which is sort of a niche thing to write about except it spans centuries from the early 1800s through today. There's echoes of the nineteenth century naturalists' attitude that art collectors seemed to share with the 'If we don't take this now to preserve, no one will see it in the future!' as an excuse to take priceless cave paintings and bas reliefs from walls of the Dunhuang caves. The modern new age trend towards the east as exotic mysticism is really only a historical rhyme of previous trends towards an Asian aesthetic. Bookending historical record are cases of how modern China is now a player in the art collecting world, full of both the newly rich looking to collect and a nationalist group looking to repatriate stolen goods.

I'm a tad bit torn because some of the looting is about as bad as the theft of the Elgin Marbles from Greece, but on the other hand having collections stateside means they're much more accessible to me in the future.… (altro)

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Daumari | 2 altre recensioni | Dec 30, 2017 |

The China collectors : America's century-long hunt… di Karl E. Meyer

Well written account of American efforts to collect the finest examples of Chinese art for private and museum collections. Interesting accounts of the explorations for these works as well as the earliest art dealers who worked to export the cultural legacy of China. Turmoil within China aided in the removal of some of the finest works and the political history of China is integrated well into this fascinating story. Altogether, this is a fascinating look at one segment in the growth of encyclopedic museums in the U.S.… (altro)

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15minutes | 2 altre recensioni | Jul 19, 2016 |

Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East di Shareen Blair Brysac

fascinating reading A history of the the wheelings and dealing done in the Middle East. Well researched and written. Favorite quote "Never had so few lost so much so stupidly and so fast."
Second favorite quote paraphrased "They are only a minority, who cares"

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busterrll | Jun 17, 2016 |

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