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The great exodus from China : trauma, memory, and identity in modern Taiwan / Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, University of Missouri, Columbia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yang, Dominic Meng-Hsuan, 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zhongguo guo min dang--Biography.
- Zhongguo guo min dang.
- Soldiers--Taiwan--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Homeless persons--Taiwan--Biography.
- Homeless persons.
- Refugees--Taiwan--Biography.
- Refugees.
- Veterans--Taiwan--Biography.
- Veterans.
- China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949--Veterans.
- China.
- China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949--Refugees.
- China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949--Personal narratives.
- Taiwan--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Taiwan.
- China--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 311 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Sep 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version Yang, Dominic Meng-Hsuan, 1976- The Great Exodus from China
- ISBN:
- 9781108809153
- 1108809154
- 9781108803687
- 1108803687
- 9781108784306
- 1108784305
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