, 173–176, 182, 284

Book of Genesis, 157, 176, 184

bourgeois liberalism (zicanjieji ziyouhua), 29

Braester, Yomi, 30

Witness against History, 23, 60, 62, 160

Browning, Christopher, 65, 106–107

Buss, Helen M., 204, 233

bystanders, 66, 80, 89

ordinary people, 63–65, 67–69, 71, 78, 81, 106–107, 127, 134, 165

and perpetrators and victims, 10, 69, 71, 74–75, 81, 237

Can Xue, 1–2, 12, 21, 36–38, 48, 51–52, 81, 156, 284

“Hut on the Mountain, The”, 49–50, 62

“Summer Day in the Beautiful South, A”, 49

cannibalism, 123, 125, 127–130, 151, 163, 172–176, 182

Caochangdi Work Station, 114, 152

categorial murder, 238

censorship, xii, 3, 17, 19, 31, 34, 36, 42–43, 72–73, 76, 80, 98, 115, 139, 156, 162–163, 187, 218, 221, 227–228, 240–241

See also self-censorship

Chang, Jung, 197, 203, 208, 210, 232

on China, 211

Madame Sun Yat-Sen, 206

Mao: The Untold Story, 212

on Red Guard experience, 209

Wild Swans, 20, 200, 202, 205–207, 209, 211–214, 216, 233

chanhui (懺悔), 83–85, 89, 103, 161, 172, 227, 234

Charter 08, 228

Cheek, Timothy, 212, 233

Chen Guohe, 174, 191–192

Chen Ran, 38

Chen Sihe, 107–108, 151

“Contemporary Chinese literature and memories of the Cultural Revolution”, 84

“From youthful sentiment to midlife crisis”, 83

“Literary representation of the land reform in the last sixty years”, 78

Chen Xiaolu, 72, 103

Chen, Xiaomei, 21, 206, 219

child survivors. See under children

childhood, 17, 38–40, 46–47, 52–53, 76, 86, 95–96, 155, 214–215, 222, 235, 237

children, 16, 32, 47–48, 51, 69, 89, 117, 128–130, 152, 157, 163, 165–173, 175–188, 195, 209–210, 215, 220, 223, 227, 229–230, 237

child survivors, 18, 38–39, 41, 46, 54, 56, 76, 81, 95–96, 102–103, 158–159

children of perpetrators, 41, 68, 76, 82, 87

children of survivors, 38–39, 41, 52–53, 76–77, 82, 118

children of victims, 39, 41, 76, 119

eternal child, 49

China

isolationism, 75, 196, 200

national amnesia, 27

official position on Maoist atrocities, 4, 8, 24, 44