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Behind the History and Sociology of Memory: A Review of Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang’s The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan (2021, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

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Qian, L. Behind the History and Sociology of Memory: A Review of Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang’s The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan (2021, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Int J Polit Cult Soc (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-023-09443-4

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