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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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