Landscapes of the Chinese Soul - The Enduring Presence of the Cultural Revolution

List of contents

Preface -- Introduction: Cultural Revolution and cultural regression -- Negotiating the past: narratives of the Cultural Revolution in party history, literature, popular media, and interviews -- The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) as an experience of contingency -- Red terror: the experience of violence during the Cultural Revolution -- The Cultural Revolution in the mirror of the soul: a research project of the Sigmund Freud Institute -- Psychic trauma between the poles of the individual and society in China -- The Chinese Cultural Revolution: a traumatic experience and its intergenerational transmission -- Selective chronology of events in the history of the People’s Republic of China -- Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of our Party since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China

About the author

Tomas Plankers, DPhil, Dipl.-Psych., is a member of the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt am Main, working in private practice and as a training analyst member of the Frankfurt Psychoanalytic Institute. From 2000 to 2005 he taught analytic psychotherapy at the Shanghai Mental Health Center in China, training Chinese psychiatrists and psychologists. He heads the research project 'Forms of Biographical Processing of Social Upheavals, as Exemplified by the so-called Cultural Revolution in China'.

Summary

This book documents the research project on the trauma of the Cultural Revolution in China and its intergenerational effects. It allows the reader to view the trauma through the perspective of 2,500 years of Chinese thought, and in the light of Chinese social history and governmental policy.

Product details

• Authors: PLAENKERS, Tomas Plaenkers
• Assisted by: Plaenkers Tomas (Editor), Tomas Plänkers (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367325305
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32530-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; China, Psychoanalysis, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / China, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, Culture and Psychoanalysis