Description: 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.
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EAN: 9781108746878
UPC: 9781108746878
ISBN: 9781108746878
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Format: Paperback, 329 pages
Author: Yang, Dominic Meng-Hsuan
Book Title: The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and I
Item Height: 1.8 cm
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Item Weight: 0.36 kg
Item Width: 15.2 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
