After the Event - Feuchtwang, Stephan

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Auteur(s) : Feuchtwang, Stephan

Editeur : Berghahn Books

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/04/2011

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 258

Expédition : 531

Dimensions : 23.5 x 15.7 x 1.9

ISBN : 9780857450869

Résumé :

Chapter 1. Introduction: Transmitting loss

Chapter 2. Comparing the incomparable: the Third Reich and the Great Leap famine
Chapter 3. 'Communism' in Mainland China and Taiwan

PART I: THE GREAT LEAP FAMINE

Chapter 4. Moral and political dilemmas from the Great Leap Famine
Chapter 5. Implicit transmission: the generation gap after the Great Leap famine

PART II: THE LUKU INCIDENT OF THE WHITE TERROR

Chapter 6. Disruption, commemoration and family repair in Taiwan ?
Chapter 7. Gesture and monument in a tourist landscape: the generation gap in Taiwan

PART III: THE THIRD REICH

Chapter 8. Acknowledgement of the Third Reich in post-war Germany
Chapter 9. Disruption, commemoration and family repair: some Jewish German families
Chapter 10. Recalling the Third Reich and the Holocaust after two generations: some German German families

CONCLUSION

Chapter 11. Beyond bad death

References

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Biographie:
Stephan Feuchtwang is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE). He established the first centre for social scientific study on China in the UK (1973) at City University London, and the MSc China in Comparative Perspective Programme (2006) at the LSE, to date the only one of its kind in the world. He was Present of the British Association of China Studies (BACS). He has been engaged in research on popular religion and politics in mainland China and Taiwan since 1966, resulting in a number of publications on charisma, place, temples and festivals, and civil society. He has recently been engaged in a comparative project exploring the theme of the recognition of catastrophic loss, including the loss of archive and recall, which in Chinese cosmology and possibly elsewhere is pre-figured in the category of ghosts. Most recently he has been pursuing a project on the comparison of civilizations and empires. He has published more than ten books and a few dozen articles, including Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor (1991, 2001) and After the Event: The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan (2011).

Sommaire:
Stephan Feuchtwang is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE). He established the first centre for social scientific study on China in the UK (1973) at City University London, and the MSc China in Comparative Perspective Programme (2006) at the LSE, to date the only one of its kind in the world. He was Present of the British Association of China Studies (BACS). He has been engaged in research on popular religion and politics in mainland China and Taiwan since 1966, resulting in a number of publications on charisma, place, temples and festivals, and civil society. He has recently been engaged in a comparative project exploring the theme of the recognition of catastrophic loss, including the loss of archive and recall, which in Chinese cosmology and possibly elsewhere is pre-figured in the category of ghosts. Most recently he has been pursuing a project on the comparison of civilizations and empires. He has published more than ten books and a few dozen articles, including Popular Religion in China: The Imperial Metaphor (1991, 2001) and After the Event: The Transmission of Grievous Loss in Germany, China and Taiwan (2011)....