After the Event

The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85745-086-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feuchtwang, Stephan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction: Transmitting loss

Chapter 2. Comparing the incomparable: the Third Reich and the Great Leap famine

Chapter 3. ‘Communism’ in Mainland China and Taiwan

PART I: THE GREAT LEAP FAMINE

Chapter 4. Moral and political dilemmas from the Great Leap Famine

Chapter 5. Implicit transmission: the generation gap after the Great Leap famine

PART II: THE LUKU INCIDENT OF THE WHITE TERROR

Chapter 6. Disruption, commemoration and family repair in Taiwan  

Chapter 7. Gesture and monument in a tourist landscape: the generation gap in Taiwan

PART III: THE THIRD REICH

Chapter 8. Acknowledgement of the Third Reich in post-war Germany

Chapter 9. Disruption, commemoration and family repair: some Jewish German families

Chapter 10. Recalling the Third Reich and the Holocaust after two generations: some German German families

CONCLUSION

Chapter 11. Beyond bad death

References

Über Autor(innen)

Feuchtwang, Stephan
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.