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The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years

The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years

Chen, Lingchei Letty

Hardcover

Series: Cambria Sinophone World

Literary CriticismChinese HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1604979925
ISBN13: 9781604979923
Publisher: Cambria Pr
Published: Mar 25 2020
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

It is now forty years after Mao Zedong's death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, and more than fifty years since the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine. During this time, the collective memory of these events has been sanitized, reduced to a much-diluted version of what truly took place. Historical and sociological approaches cannot fully address the moral failure that allowed the atrocities of the Mao era to take place. Humanist approaches, such as literary criticism, have a central role to play in uncovering and making explicit the testimonies of both victims and perpetrators in memory writing in order to recover the truth of China's history.

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