absurdist-realist, 81–82

aesthetics, 32, 36–37, 49, 152, 155, 161, 166, 169, 193–194, 239

Ah Cheng, 37, 81, 156

allegory, 157, 176–177, 180, 187, 191–192, 285

and history, 19–20, 41–42, 56–57, 155, 160, 162–165, 175, 178, 184, 188–189

and metaphors, 42, 162, 164, 166–167, 169, 188–189, 193

and morals, 164–166, 168, 178, 183, 189

religious, 169, 173–174, 185–186

and trauma, 189

American Jews, 26, 28

amnesia, 76

Analects, The, 167

anamnesis, 2, 12

Anti-Rightist Movement, xii, 19, 27, 45, 63, 68, 86, 90–91, 93–94, 113, 115, 137–139, 238

apology, 9–10, 93

official apology, 72

public apologies, 72, 103

Aristotle, 169

Assmann, Aleida, 83

“On the (In)compatibility of Guilt and Suffering in German Memory”, 82, 108

Augé, Marc, 14–15, 22

Auschwitz, 190

authentic witnessing. See under witness

autobiography, 7–8, 18, 49, 197, 203–205, 209, 218

avant-garde writing, 1, 30, 37, 52, 82, 151, 285

Ba Jin, 25, 27, 34, 61

Bai Di, 20, 138, 203, 215–216

See also Some of Us

Bai Hua

Kulian (Unrequited love), 29

balinghou, 114

Bar-On, Dan, 76, 107

Baum, Steven K., 74

Psychology of Genocide, The, 65, 106–107

three-tiered framework, 66–67

Psychology of Genocide, The. See under Baum, Steven K.

Bauman, Zygmunt, 238, 241

Bei Cun, 38

Bei Dao, 37

Beijing, xi, 5, 183, 222, 227, 229, 240–241

Berkhofer, Robert F., 127, 152

Bernard-Donals, Michael, 2, 21

Berry, Michael, 21, 289

History of Pain, A, 31, 284

bestseller, 197, 202

bible, 157, 160, 167–168, 174, 176–178, 182–186

bildungsroman, 32, 226

Bing Xin, 222

blocked memory. See under memory

blood, 49, 88, 95, 97, 157, 163