Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction
5. Chapter 1 Transmitting Loss 3
6. Chapter 2 Comparing the Incomparable: The Third Reich and a Phase of Maoism 20
7. Chapter 3 ‘Communism’ in Mainland China and Taiwan: Official Transmission of the Great Leap Famine and of the White Terror 43
8. PART I The Great Leap Famine
9. Chapter 4 Moral and Political Dilemmas from the Great Leap Famine 71
10. Chapter 5 Implicit Transmission: The Generation Gap after the Great Leap Famine 92
11. Part II The Luku Incident of the White Terror
12. Chapter 6 Disruption, Commemoration and Family Repair in Taiwan 113
13. Chapter 7 Gesture and Monument in a Tourist Landscape: The Generation Gap in Taiwan 136
14. Part III The Third Reich
15. Chapter 8 Acknowledgement of the Third Reich in Postwar Germany 153
16. Chapter 9 Disruption, Commemoration and Family Repair: Some Jewish German Families 174
17. Chapter 10 Recalling the Third Reich and the Holocaust after Two Generations: Some German German Families 190
18. Conclusion
19. Chapter 11 Beyond Bad Death 209
20. References 228
21. Index 235