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Acknowledgments
Portions of this book have previously appeared in other publications. Parts of chapter 1 appeared as “Writing Historical Trauma in the Everyday,” in A Companion to Modern Chinese Literature, edited by Yingjin Zhang (West Sussex, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2015). Parts of chapter 2 appeared as “Remembering Perpetrators: China’s Cultural Revolution (1966–1976),” in Empire, Ideology, Mass Violence: The Long 20th Century in Comparative Perspective, edited by Tobias Hof (Munich: Herbert Utz Verlag, 2016). Chapter 5 is a revision of “Translating Memory, Transforming Identity: Mnemonic Practice in Wild Swans,” Tamkang Review 38, no. 2 (2008).
I have learned much from the Post/Memory Studies Reading Group at Washington University in St. Louis. I owe particular thanks to my graduate students and colleagues who have debated many of the ideas in the book with me. Everyone in my family has supported me through this long process, and so I dedicate this book to them.
Finally, I want to express my deepest gratitude to Professor Victor H. Mair, the general editor of the Cambria Sinophone World Series, and Toni Tan, the director of Cambria Press, for their commitment to making this book possible. Particularly I want to thank Toni for believing in this book. I also wish to thank the Cambria Press team for their meticulous,