Min, Anchee, 203, 207, 232

Red Azalea, 20, 197, 202, 213–214, 216

Mitter, Rana, 152, 199, 233

mneme, 2

Mo Yan, 36–38, 46, 81, 156, 284

Blacky, 47–48

“Iron Child”, 47

“Storytellers”, 47, 62

“Transparent Carrot, The”, 47

Monster That Is History, The. See under Wang, David Der-wei

moral good, 205

mother, 34–36, 48, 51, 85, 128–129, 137, 155, 174, 208–209

See also grandmother

mythorealism, 161–163, 169

Nabokov, Vladimir

Speak, Memory, 235, 241

Nanfang zhoubao (Southern weekly), 3

Nazi, 7, 28, 38, 43, 61, 70, 73, 76, 83, 94, 100, 105, 164, 235

New Testament, 167, 177

New York Times, 202, 241

Newsletter of Literature and Arts, 86

Nien Cheng

Life and Death in Shanghai, 197, 200

1980s, 30, 37, 52, 70, 95, 114, 139, 171, 200, 218

“no-regret” stance, 71, 223

normalcy, 39, 129

nostalgia, 3–4, 7, 218–221, 223, 227, 229, 233, 283

Nuremberg, 83

1.5 generation, 18, 38–41, 46, 52, 54–55, 61, 81–82, 96, 99, 102, 107–108

Orientalism, 197

palimpsest, 233

and memory, 193–196, 210

Parker, David, 205, 233

perpetrators, xii, 9–11, 18–19, 35, 41, 60, 66, 70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 85, 87, 89, 91, 95–96, 98, 102, 108–109, 120–122, 126, 133, 149, 179–180, 186, 201, 223, 226, 231

active agents, 90

admission by, 28, 71

behavioral context, 64

Great Famine, 73, 131–132

literary representation of, 64, 77, 79–80

ordinary people, 63–65, 67–69, 71, 81, 106–107, 184

peer pressure, 67, 71

personal dispositions as a factor, 67

rational thinkers and actors, 68

victimhood, 8, 44, 63, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 82–83, 90, 94, 97, 99–101, 103, 125, 146, 211, 237, 285

photograph, 39, 123, 125, 222, 228–231

Pickowicz, Paul G., 60, 112, 152

Pontalis, Jean-Bertrand, 14–16

popular memory writings. See under memory

postmemory. See under memory

post-scar literature, 37

post-traumatic stress disorder. See under trauma

premature bewilderment, 38

prison wall, 37

propaganda, 34, 36, 45, 86, 100, 122