Stephan Feuchtwang is part-time Professor in the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics. He has published books on Chinese popular religion, feng-shui and on grassroots charisma in southern Fujian and northern Taiwan. His research interests are on the relations between politics and religion and on the anthropology of history and comparative civilisations. For this book he extended his research from China and Taiwan to Germany, where he was born and from which his parents fled as refugees to England.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Transmitting lossChapter 2. Comparing the incomparable: the Third Reich and the Great Leap famineChapter 3. ‘Communism’ in Mainland China and TaiwanPART I: THE GREAT LEAP FAMINEChapter 4. Moral and political dilemmas from the Great Leap FamineChapter 5. Implicit transmission: the generation gap after the Great Leap faminePART II: THE LUKU INCIDENT OF THE WHITE TERRORChapter 6. Disruption, commemoration and family repair in Taiwan  Chapter 7. Gesture and monument in a tourist landscape: the generation gap in TaiwanPART III: THE THIRD REICHChapter 8. Acknowledgement of the Third Reich in post-war GermanyChapter 9. Disruption, commemoration and family repair: some Jewish German familiesChapter 10. Recalling the Third Reich and the Holocaust after two generations: some German German familiesCONCLUSIONChapter 11. Beyond bad deathReferences

"This is a remarkably creative work of scholarship. The stories told in it are at once personal and analytical, local and transnational, empirical and imaginative; the horizon of comparison these stories cover is both unusual and original. The result is a creative combination of intimate historical knowledge and comparative historical narratives, acute observations of historical forces and moving accounts of victims of historical injustice – there is simply nothing like this in the existing literature."  ·  Heonik Kwon, London School of Economics"This work is eloquently and unpretentiously written. It is based on solid scholarship and interesting, intelligent, and sometimes very moving interpretation."  ·  Michael Lambek, University of Toronto