Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Note on Chinese Words and Names Prologue: Looking Backward Part I. Literary Representation 1. Ethnicity and Atrocity 2. Documenting the Past 3. Engendering Victimhood Part II. Cinematic Re-creation 4. Past Versus Present 5. Screening Atrocity 6. Memory as Redemption Epilogue: Looking Forward Notes Bibliography Index

Promotional Information

"A landmark destined to be the standard reference for many years to come." -- William Tay, professor emeritus, University of California, San Diego

About the Author

Sylvia Li-chun Lin is the Notre Dame Assistant Professor of Chinese at the University of Notre Dame. Her research interests include Republican culture and literary journals, language and identity in Taiwan, and commemoration of atrocity.

Reviews

The result is a complicated and neglected topic managed economically and lucidly in a volume that will surely intervene in Chinese cultural studies but also will prove attractive to anyone concerned with the overarching issue of atrocity and the literary and cinematic representation of the 'disappeared.' The Rocky Mountain Review