Tomas Plaenkers

Landscapes of the Chinese Soul

The Enduring Presence of the Cultural Revolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In 1981 the Communist Party of China declared: "The Cultural Revolution", which lasted from May 1966 to October 1976, was responsible for the heaviest losses suffered by the Party, the state and the people since the founding of the People's Republic. The civilizational crisis called the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution still eludes our historical, political, and psychological understanding.This book helps to fill the gap. It features twelve extended, psychoanalytically-oriented interviews, six withwitnesses to the revolution and six more with sons and daughters ... The authors explore Chinese ways of processing the experience of violence, both individually and in collective memory, and identify psycho-traumatic consequences for witnesses and for the following generation."--Publishers website

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9781780490939
• ISBN-10: 1780490933
• Artikelnr.: 39963323

Autorenporträt

Plaenkers, Tomas

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Cultural Revolution and cultural regression
Negotiating the past: narratives of the Cultural Revolution in party history, literature, popular media, and interviews
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966
1976) as an experience of contingency
Red terror: the experience of violence during the Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution in the mirror of the soul: a research project of the Sigmund Freud Institute
Psychic trauma between the poles of the individual and society in China
The Chinese Cultural Revolution: a traumatic experience and its intergenerational transmission
Selective chronology of events in the history of the People's Republic of China
Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of our Party since the Founding of the People's Republic of China