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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827190203321

Autore

Feuchtwang Stephan

Titolo

After the event [[electronic resource] ] : the transmission of grievous loss in Germany, China and Taiwan / / Stephan Feuchtwang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011

ISBN

0-85745-087-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Disciplina

909.82

Soggetti

Loss (Psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The great leap famine -- pt. 2. The Luku incident of the White Terror -- pt. 3. The Third Reich.

Sommario/riassunto

Two of the most destructive moments of state violence in the twentieth century occurred in Europe between 1933 and 1945 and in China between 1959 and 1961 (the Great Leap famine). This is the first book to bring the two histories together in order to examine their differences and to understand if there are any similar processes of transmission at work. The author expertly ties in the Taiwanese civil war between Nationalists and Communists, which included the White Terror from 1947 to 1987, a less well-known but equally revealing part of twentieth-century history. Personal and family stories ar