When the Nationalists lost China in 1949, many of them left behind their families as they retreated to Taiwan. A half century later, through democratic election

Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines the human exodus from China to Taiwan in 1949, focusing on trauma, memory, and identity.

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Vi

Relations between Taiwan and the Peoples Republic of China have oscillated between outright hostility and wary detente ever since the Archipelago seceded from t

"A volume that demands to be held." --Los Angeles Review of Books True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family