Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-74687-8 — The Great Exodus from China Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang Index More Information Index 1950s anti-communist literature victims of Chinese colonization, 12, 164 a list of major novels, 229 women who married into juancun, 248 Alien Land. See Bo Yang: Alien Land women who married mainland soldiers, connection to the Resistance War, 93–94 55, 245, 247 debate among scholars, 229 Academia Historica, 151 literature and art for war, 94 Acheson, Dean, 91 rise of female writers, 229 Ai Wen, 94 1954 Sino-American Mutual Defense Alexander, Jeffrey Treaty, 120, 122 critique of Caruth and psychoanalysis, 28 1958 Sino-American Joint Communiqué cultural trauma theory, 5, 7 Chiang–Dulles negotiation, 122–123 debunking traumatic memories, 271 general information, 90 excess of traumatic memories, 9 public reactions in Taiwan, 86, Holocaust memory in contemporary 123–126, 130 Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 270 turning point, 119 latency in trauma, epistemological 228 Incident creation, 28 author’s family history, 265–266 negative affect, traumatic memory, dispute over Japanese properties, 82 267, 271 historiography of early postwar Taiwan, trauma process and trauma 44, 73–74 drama, 28 mainlander and Taiwanese division, Ali Mountain, 86 113, 115 alma mater societies, mainlanders, 66 post-authoritarian historiography and anachronistic, nonlinear sense of time, commemoration, 15 exiles and refugees. See diaspora: state suppression of memory, 15 temporal displacement Taiwanese cultural trauma, 15, 84, 269 Andrade, Tonio, 12 Taiwanese uprising and Nationalist Ang, Ien, 32 suppression, 14 atomized (socially atomized), 17 713 Penghu Incident. See exodus, China to Austronesians. See Aborigines Taiwan: traumatic stories: exiled students, Shandong Province Bai Chongxi, 128 baibai (religious festivals, native A Brighter Summer Day (1991), 254 Taiwanese), 98 Aborigines Bandung Conference, 121 ethnic label, 11, 15 Beijing Normal University, 146 in Japanese military, 76, 268 Beijing Summer Olympics, 1 mainlanders’ attitude toward, 114 Beijing University, 210 maternal aboriginal identity as a way to Bengbu, Anhui Province, 45 deflect the stigmatization of paternal benshengren. See all entries under “native mainlander identity, 224 Taiwanese” Nationalist colonialism, 37, 223 bentuhua. See Taiwanization nativist claim, 16 Berry, Michael, 275 295 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-74687-8 — The Great Exodus from China Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang Index More Information 296 Index Big River Big Sea 1949 (2009). See Long Changliu (Free Flow) magazine Yingtai magazine’s history, 95–96 Black Cat Squadron, 179 travelogues in China during the black five categories, 195 Resistance War, 96–97, 98–100 Bo Yang travelogues in Taiwan, 1950s, 117 Alien Land (1961) Wu Kaixuan, 96 copies sold and popularity, 238 Changsha, Hunan Province, 98 film adaptation, 238 Chao, Linda, 102, 179 lack of critical acclaim, 238 Charcot, Jean-Martin, 25 mass suffering, 1949 exodus, 239 Chen Cuilian, 115 bio, 236–237 Chen Jiying, 229 Guo Yidong, 236 Chen Kuan-Hsing, 269, 273 The Ugly Chinese (1985), 236 Chen Shui-bian Breuer, Josef, 25 assassination attempt, 227 Brook, Timothy, 169 disputed reelection in 2004, 227, 257 Brown, Melissa, 260 presidency, 220, 226 Burma Red Shirt Army, 227 Nationalist guerrilla group in the Cheng Zilong, 60 China–Burma–Thailand border Chengdu, Sichuan Province, 51 region, 237, 239 Chi Pang-yuan repatriation of mainland Chinese soldiers anti-communist literature, 1950s and refugees, 17, 43, 248 Taiwan, 229 scattering, mainland exodus, 2 The River of Big Torrents (2009), 4 Butalia, Urvashi, 87 Chiang Ching-kuo “a special bond” with retired soldiers, Cartier, Carolyn, 33 180 Caruth, Cathy China Youth Anti-Communist National aporia, 25, 274 Salvation Corps, 237 centrality of literature to represent co-opting Taiwanese elites, 221 trauma, 25 lifting travel ban to China, 187 cross-cultural connectivity of trauma, 28, persecution of Bo Yang, 237 30, 267 reaction to veterans’ protest, 172, Moses and Monotheism, 27, 31 183, 186 unclaimed experience, 7, 8, 26, 27, 272 reconstruction of old military families’ celebration, national day, PRC villages, 250 seventieth anniversary, 277 role in facilitating democracy and sixtieth anniversary, 1 cross-strait contact, 177, 180–181 Central Bank, ROC, 215 role in White Terror, 109 Central Daily News. See Zhongyang ribao three noes policy, 176, 179, 180 century of humiliation, China, 1, 276 Veterans Affairs Council, 79, 180 Chan, Shelly, 35 Chiang Kai-shek Chang Mau-kuei 1958 Chiang–Dulles negotiation, 90, 1950s popular jingle on returning to 122–123 China, 88 1958 proclamation, retake China via conflation between juancun and the larger political means, 119, 123, 130 mainlander communities, 248 228 Incident, 14, 266 diasporization of mainlanders, 38 anti-communist propaganda, 21, impossibility of return, mainlanders, 119 93, 257 mainlander studies in Taiwan, 36 bid for a third-term presidency, 106 seeking respect and recognition for their economic policy in 1950s Taiwan, 80 history, mainlanders, 228 inflation of troop numbers, 1950s, 65 Chang, Sung-sheng Yvonne, 94, 229 initiation of Chinese Cultural Changchun, siege of. See Chinese civil war Renaissance Movement, 143 historiography: Changchun, mass Memorial Hall, 181–182 starvation plans to invade China, 1960s, 124 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-74687-8 — The Great Exodus from China Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang Index More Information Index 297 promotion of Taiyuan’s five hundred National Revolutionary Martyrs’ martyrs, 232–234 Shrine, 232 relationship with Bai Chongxi, 128 wanren, 232 relationship with Ziyou Zhongguo (Free Westad, Odd Arne China) magazine, 104–107 decisive encounters, 23 retaking the mainland, 88–89, 101, heroic image, PRC textbooks, 58 120, 230 lived experiences, common people, 56 troop inspection, Pingtung, 83 Zhang Zhenglong, 22, 58 China Airlines Flight 334. See Wang Xijue, Chinese colonization of Taiwan, 12, aircraft hijacking 164, 266 China National Tourism Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement Administration, 190 debate on its historical legacy, 143–144 China’s ancient and imperial treasures, history of the movement, 143 transportation to Taiwan, 189 relationship with tongxianghui cultural Chinese civil war historiography activities, 144, 148, 152 a teleology of revolution, 23 Chiu Kuei-fen, 229 atrocities against civilians, Chinese Chongqing Communist forces, 47–48 homecoming experience, 198 beyond the watershed year of 1949, Resistance War memories, 96–97, 98 89, 259 tongxianghui activities, wartime capital, 137 Changchun, mass starvation, 58 Chow, Rey, 32 Chinese Communist interpretation Chu Yun-han, 226 mainlanders as remnants of the Chun, Allen, 32 Nationalist bandits, 20 Chun’an, Zhejiang Province, 40 War of Liberation, 20, 22, 58, 275 Chungli fixation on reasons for the Nationalist Chungli Incident, 180 defeat and the Chinese Communist interview with Han Xiaoli, 48 victory, 7, 22–23, 84 Civil Affairs Department, Taiwan loss of China controversy, Provincial Government, 138 22–24, 51 Cixi, Zhejiang Province, 202 McCarthyism, influence of, 22 Clifford, James military history, 23 conceptual slippage, diaspora theory, 39 Nationalist interpretation diasporic condition, 10, 35 mobilization for counterinsurgency, 21 political and intellectual stake, of relocation of central government to invoking diaspora, 36 Taiwan, 230 roots and routes, 10, 35 restorative nationalist ideology, Clinton, Bill, 225 21, 230 coercive institutions. See Greitens, Sheena official restriction, research in China, 22, com-passion. See Wang Horng-luen 56–58, 275–277 Containment strategy, 91 reason for using the lowercase “civil Corcuff, Stéphane war,” 24 creolization and liminality, 39, 262 research on “revolution” discrimination against mainlanders in Johnson, Chalmers, Hinton, William, contemporary Taiwan, social Selden, Mark, 23 data, 223 rethinking the field’s approach through guest mentality, 88 repressed memories coming out of mainlander anxiety, contemporary democratized Taiwan, 51, 84 Taiwan, 223 Taiyuan’s five hundred martyrs mainlander identity dilemma, 38, 220 alleged martyrdom, 230–231 mainlanders’ provincial/native-place commemoration and education, identifications, 136 232–234 size of the exodus population, 63, 65 deconstruction of the myth, 234–235 Taiwanization, 16 Liu Cunshan, 234 the end of guest mentality, 119 martyrs who are still alive, 235 tropism, 39, 262 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-74687-8 — The Great Exodus from China Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang Index More Information 298 Index Craps, Stef liuli (diasporic displacement), 1, 31, 35 critique of the Freudian event-based mainlanders as a type of Chinese diaspora model, trauma studies, 8 main problems with the concept, 34, decentering the Holocaust, 268 38, 260 decolonizing trauma, 30 rationale behind the concept, 6 cross-strait (Taiwan–China) relations the concept’s emergence in divergent memories and identities, democratized Taiwan, 36, 38 275–277 moments and mementos (in addition to illegal travels, Taiwan to China, early Clifford’s roots and routes), 11, 35 1980s, 178 more restricted usage, 10, 34 mainlanders and unification, 264 politics of claiming diaspora, 11, 35, marriage migration, China to 39, 260 Taiwan, 212 temporal displacement, 10, 35, 260 nine-point proposal, Ye Jianying, 176