...This chapter focuses on Chinese women's childhood memories of the chaotic Republican period and the arrival of the Communists in 1949. It relates the women's experiences of their unprotected mobility as the children of the poor, as refugees, child brides, and farmers in a society that regarded...

...This chapter examines the ways in which unsubstantiated stories become “truth” in Kwanga villages. It moves beyond examining rumor to investigate ways in which stories about recent events influence people's interpretation of future events and their memories of the past, and can ultimately...

...This chapter analyzes the experiences of the post-1975 generation: the young Vietnamese who were born in Vietnam or in the United States after the official end of the Vietnam War. It investigates how young Vietnamese Americans, born and/or raised in the United States, create “memories” of a war...

... cohort post-Mao historical memories modernity feminine identity The previous chapters addressed distinctive visions of modernity formed in the 1949 and Cultural Revolutions. These projects imagined, respectively, that gender transgressions in labor and continuous revolutionary challenges...

...The book's author gives an acocunt here of his life experiences. The chapter does not consider these experiences as odysseys or any other kind of generic experience and does not regard them as directly comparable to thus. The chapter considers these experiences as true and loyal memory. Those...

... for understanding. This chronicle is the story of that quest. It takes the author, and us, on a journey into the minds, memories, and emotions of the bomb builders. Scientists Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, Joseph Rotblat, Herbert York, Philip Morrison, and Robert Wilson, and philosopher David Hawkins responded...

... and negative memories as they walked down the streets of the city they once called home. The chapter then contrasts the Hirschs' memories with those of Rosa Roth Zuckerman, the only member of Carl's family who remained in the city after the Soviet invasion. Hirsch Carl archival documents relating to Hirsch...

...The passions that course through a game help to render the memories lasting. At the same time, the temporal, ritualistic structure of chess lends itself to the narrative recall of what happened during a game. Chess games have clear beginnings and endings, clear-cut temporal structures...

... to fight AIDS have sprung largely from those adopted against the classic epidemic diseases of the nineteenth century—especially cholera—and that they reflect the long institutional memories embodied in public health institutions....

...This chapter introduces social trauma and the remaking of everyday life. It first discusses the coverage of the three volumes on violence, before explaining the ethnographies that are presented in this book. It studies trauma, the relation between collective memories and individual memories...

..., to complete a record for later use, in which tourist experiences are converted into tourist memories. Tourists can also create this relationship on their own through photography. Cameras and camcorders are fundamental to tourism in Venice, as indeed they are to tourism everywhere. In Venice, photography...