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Remembering China from Taiwan : divided families and bittersweet reunions after the Chinese Civil War
- Title
- Remembering China from Taiwan : divided families and bittersweet reunions after the Chinese Civil War / Mahlon Meyer.
- Author
- Meyer, Mahlon
- Publication
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2012]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DS777.543 .M494 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 234 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- When the Nationalists lost China in 1949, many of them left behind their families as they retreated to Taiwan. A half century later, through democratic elections, they lost control over Taiwan as well and began looking to a new and powerful China, where their relatives had grown rich, for a sense of identity and economic support, thus laying the groundwork for the growing integration between Taiwan and China. As exchanges across the Taiwan Strait increased, many separated families finally met after years of dreaming about each other in hope and in sorrow, through many eras and disast.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- War and families > China > History > 20th century
- Refugees > Attitudes
- Refugees > Family relationships
- War and families
- Chinesischer Bürgerkrieg 1945-1949
- Flüchtling
- Familienbeziehung
- Kollektives Gedächtnis
- China > History > Civil War, 1945-1949 > Personal narratives
- China > History > Refugees > Attitudes. > Civil War, 1945-1949 > Taiwan
- China > History > Refugees > Family relationships > Civil War, 1945-1949 > Taiwan
- China
- Taiwan
- China
- Taiwan
- Genre/Form
- Personal Narrative
- History.
- Personal narratives.
- Récits personnels.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Degrees of escape -- 2. Mixing memory and desire -- 3. Low lie the shattered towers : The second generation -- Low lie the shattered towers -- Death outside -- Social change : Taiwanese versus the rest -- The grandchildren : two sketches in memory -- 4. Overseas connections : Bugged : the story of Tan Zhefu -- The factory worker -- Liu Rong : stranger in a strange land -- Missing -- Conclusion : the other shore.
- ISBN
- 9888083864
- 9789888083862
- LCCN
- 2011449266
- OCLC
- ocn769473633
- 769473633
- SCSB-1658450
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library