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After the Event - The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan (Hardcover, New)
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After the Event - The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan (Hardcover, New)
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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 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.
Stephan Feuchtwang is part-time Professor in the Department of
Anthropology, London School of Economics. He has published books on
Chinese popular religion, feng-shui and on grassroots charisma in
southern Fujian and northern Taiwan. His research interests are on
the relations between politics and religion and on the anthropology
of history and comparative civilisations. For this book he extended
his research from China and Taiwan to Germany, where he was born
and from which his parents fled as refugees to England.
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