On February 10 at 5PM (PST)\, join the online book talk hosted by UBC’s Centre for Chinese Research< /a>. The event will feature discussions with Dr. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang (yangmeng@missouri.edu ) on his newly published book— The Great Exodus from China: Trauma\, Memory\, and Identity in Modern Taiwan. We will take a look into th e one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia—the human exod us from China to Taiwan after the collapse of Chiang Kai-shek’s regime in 1 949.
The talk will be moderated by Dr. Glen Peter son (glpeters@mail.ubc.ca) and also feature the panelists Dr. Jose phine Chiu-Duke\, UBC (Josephine.ChiuDuke@ubc.ca)\, Dr. Madel ine Hsu\, University of Texas at Austin (myhsu@austin.utexas.edu)\, and Dr. Diana Lary\, UBC (lary@mail.ubc.ca).
< b>Date & Time
Wednesday\, February 10 | 5:00 – 6:30PM (PST)
Wednesday\, February 10 | 8:00 – 9 :30PM (EST)
Thursday\, February 11 | 9:00 – 10:30 AM (CST)
“Location”
The event will be hosted via Zoom. Participants will receive a link to access the event 24 hours prior to the event via ema il. Registration is required.
*If you do not rece ive the event link 24 hours prior to the event\, please email Lisa Ren at < a href="mailto:lisaren@mail.ubc.ca" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferre r">lisaren@mail.ubc.ca
Registration Required on Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/2XtaOej
About the Book – The Great Exodus from China: Trauma\, Memory\, and Identity in Modern Taiwan
Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations i n modern East Asia – the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai- shek’s regime collapsed in 1949. Peeling back layers of Cold War ideologica l constructs\, he tells a very different story from the conventional Chines e civil war historiography that focuses on debating the reasons for Communi st success and Nationalist failure. Yang lays bare the traumatic aftermath of the Chinese Communist Revolution for the hundreds of thousands of ordina ry people who were forcibly displaced from their homes across the sea. Unde rscoring the displaced population’s trauma of living in exile and their poi gnant ‘homecomings’ four decades later\, he presents a multi-event trajecto ry of repeated traumatization with recurring searches for home\, belonging\ , and identity. This thought-provoking study challenges established notions of trauma\, memory\, diaspora\, and reconciliation.
The book is available for orders here.
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