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Remembering China from Taiwan : divided families and bittersweet reunions after the Chinese Civil War / Mahlon Meyer.
Van Pelt Library DS777.542 .M494 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meyer, Mahlon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Refugees.
- Families.
- War and families.
- China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949--Personal narratives.
- China.
- Taiwan.
- War and families--China--History--20th century.
- China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949--Refugees--Taiwan--Attitudes.
- China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949--Refugees--Family relationships--Taiwan.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- x, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2012.
- Contents:
- 1 Degrees of Escape 15
- 2 Mixing Memory and Desire 57
- 3 Low Lie the Shattered Towers 119
- The second generation 120
- Low lie the shattered towers 121
- Death outside 128
- Social change: Taiwanese versus the rest 159
- The grandchildren: Two sketches in memory 164
- 4 Overseas Connections 179
- Bugged: The story of Tan Zhefu 179
- The factory worker 186
- Liu Rong: Stranger in a strange Land 199
- Missing 210.
- ISBN:
- 9789888083862
- 9888083864
- OCLC:
- 769473633
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