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“The Great Leap Backward provides illuminating new interpretations of canonical and popular literary representations of the Mao era, ranging from avant-garde and allegorical fiction to reportage and memoirs, as unsanctioned memories and testimonies. Drawing inspiration from Holocaust studies and its theoretical methodology, this book’s critical reflections on generational memory, victimhood, perpetration, guilt, and redemption make an important contribution to working through China’s traumatic past amidst state-sponsored amnesia.”
—Jie Li,
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities,
Harvard University