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The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan
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by Dominic Meng-Hsuan YangDominic Meng-Hsuan Yang
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Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai-shek's regime collapsed in 1949. Peeling back layers of Cold War ideological constructs, he tells a very different story from the conventional Chinese civil war historiography that focuses on debating the reasons for Communist success and Nationalist failure. Yang lays bare the traumatic aftermath of the Chinese Communist Revolution for the hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who were forcibly displaced from their homes across the sea. Underscoring the displaced population's trauma of living in exile and their poignant 'homecomings' four decades later, he presents a multi-event trajectory of repeated traumatization with recurring searches for home, belonging, and identity. This thought-provoking study challenges established notions of trauma, memory, diaspora, and reconciliation.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781108478120 |
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Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Publication date: | 09/24/2020 |
Pages: | 320 |
Product dimensions: | 9.06(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.79(d) |
About the Author
Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang is Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. The exodus; 2. Wartime sojourning; 3. Cultural nostalgia; 4. The long road home; 5. Narrating the exodus; Epilogue.Customer Reviews
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