Feuchtwang, Stephan (2011) After the event: the transmission of grievous loss in Germany, China and Taiwan. Berghahn Books, London, UK. ISBN 9780857450869
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Two of the most destructive moments of state violence in the twentieth century occurred in Europe between 1933 and 1945 and in China between 1959 and 1961, the Great Leap famine. This is the first book to bring the two histories together in order to examine their differences and to understand if there are any similar processes of transmission at work. The author expertly ties in the Taiwanese civil war between Nationalists and Communists, which included the White Terror 1947–87, a less well known but equally revealing part of twentieth-century history. Personal and family stories are told, often in the individual’s own words, and then compared with the public accounts of the same events as found in official histories, commemorations, school textbooks, and other forms of public memory. The author presents innovative and constructive criticisms of social memory theories in order to make sense both of what happened and how what happened is transmitted.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Official URL: | http://www.berghahnbooks.com |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 Berghahn Books |
| Divisions: | Anthropology |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D901 Europe (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Feb 2011 12:06 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2024 06:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/32186 |
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