After the Event
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After the Event

The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan

  1. 246 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

After the Event

The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan

About this book

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 from 1947 to 1987, 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.

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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780857450869
eBook ISBN
9780857450876
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social History
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. After the Event
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 - Transmitting Loss
  6. Chapter 2 - Comparing the Incomparable: The Third Reich and a Phase of Maoism
  7. Chapter 3 ‘Communism’ in Mainland China and Taiwan: Official Transmission of the Great Leap Famine and of the White Terror
  8. Part I - The Great Leap Famine
  9. Chapter 4 - Moral and Political Dilemmas from the Great Leap Famine
  10. Chapter 5 - Implicit Transmission: The Generation Gap after the Great Leap Famine
  11. Part II - The Luku Incident of the White Terror
  12. Chapter 6 - Disruption, Commemoration and Family Repair in Taiwan
  13. Chapter 7 - Gesture and Monumnet in a Tourist Landscape: The Generation Gap in Taiwan
  14. Part III - The Third Reich
  15. Chapter 8 - Acknowledgement of the Third Reich in Postwar Germany
  16. Chapter 9 - Disruption, Commemoration and Family Repair: Some Jewish German Families
  17. Chapter 10 - Recalling the Third Reich and the Holocaust after Two Generations: Some German German Families
  18. Conclusion
  19. Chapter 11 - Beyond Bad Death
  20. References
  21. Index