, 209, 218, 236, 239–240, 283, 285

and children, 38–39, 41, 46–48, 52–53, 82, 130, 237

post-traumatic stress disorder, 39

traumatic realism, 46–47, 52, 62, 82, 143

traumatic recall, 39

Tsai, Chien-hsin, 168–169, 184, 191–192, 284

“up to the mountains and down to the countryside”, 137, 218, 220

utopia, 57–58, 172

Uyghur Muslims, 240

Veg, Sebastian, 138–139, 152–153, 168–169, 191

victimization, 36, 63, 73, 207, 212

histories of victimization, 40

Vietnam War, 199, 201

Walker, Martin, 198, 233

Waller, James, 65, 67, 106–107

Wang Anyi, 37, 81, 222

Wang Meng, 37, 222

Wang Shuo, 37, 81

Wang Zheng, 20, 138, 203, 216

See also Some of Us

Wang, Ban, 153

Illuminations from the Past, 31

Wang, David Der-wei, 32, 283, 289

Monster That Is History, The, 31, 60–61

Watson, Elizabeth See, 166

Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Susanne, 24, 61

Wen Jie, 87

Wertsch, James V., 79, 107–108

Wiesel, Elie, 140

Williams, Philip F., 104, 109

witness, 6, 9, 11, 18, 23–24, 30, 38, 41, 44, 46–47, 52–53, 59–62, 76, 95, 97, 103–104, 107–108, 119, 122, 128, 130, 137, 140, 142–143, 146, 155–156, 158–161, 163–164, 170, 172–173, 175, 182, 189, 201, 204, 207, 212, 216, 239, 283

authentic witnessing, 36

collapse of witnessing, 36

eyewitness, 19, 114, 123, 125–127, 129, 131

literary witness, 37

Witness against History. See under Braester, Yomi

Wu Wenguang

Memory Project, 112–115, 119–120, 152

Wu Zhipu. See under Xinyang Incident

Xi Jinping, 239–241

Xiao Zhuang, 231

Irrational Times, 229–230, 234

Xinhua Daily News, 229–230

Xinyang Incident, 113, 131, 135

Liu Wencai, 132

Lu Baoguo, 128

Wu Zhipu, 126, 133

Yu Dehong, 128–129

Yu Wenhai, 125, 127–130

Xu Hui

Liushi niandai qizhi (The mood of the sixties), 222

Xu Zidong

“Contemporaneous Chinese fiction and collective memory”, 79