History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from September 2004

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from September 2004

A brief historical introduction.
September 22, 2004... Over the millennia, billions of Chinese have done a lot of remembering. And in a civilization that, since ancient times, has exalted writing and revered knowledge of the past, self-conscious remembrance has perennially occupied the literate...

Reading trauma in a Chinese youngster's memoir of 1653.(Confucian PTSD)
September 22, 2004... The mid-seventeenth century in China, from the 1620s through the 1670s, was one of the most acutely violent in the country's long history. Keeping things in turmoil were roving-rebel movements, political purges, defeat of the Ming dynasty by...

Memory in the life and poetry of the Manchu Prince Yihuan (1840-1891).(Circling the Void)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Memory is a kind of accomplishment a sort of renewal even an initiation, since the spaces it opens are new places inhabited by hordes heretofore unrealized William Carlos Williams,...

Anti-Manchuism and memories of atrocity in late Qing China.(Historical Trauma)
September 22, 2004... In April 1644 the reigning emperor of Ming-dynasty China committed suicide as massive rebel armies invaded Beijing. By the end of that year the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), led by Manchus, had defeated the rebel armies and remnant Ming forces in...

"Remembering a bitter past": the Trauma of China's Labor Camps, 1949-1978.
September 22, 2004... The span of time between the Taiping Rebellion (1850-64)--a radical, Christian-inspired politico-religious upheaval that ravaged seventeen provinces and took an estimated twenty million lives--and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution...

Can the psychology of memory enrich historical analyses of trauma?
September 22, 2004... The articles in this special issue address the relationship between trauma and memory in Chinese history. Although written primarily for fellow historians, they explore issues of strong potential interest to memory psychologists. The analyses...