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Thirty Years Before/After

My Memory of My Brother Quan’s Life Experience in Mao’s Time as an Honorable Worker (1949–1976) and in Deng’s Time as ‘Laid-Off’ (1978–1997)

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Productive Remembering and Social Agency

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Hampl (2000) has suggested that unlike fiction writers, who write primarily to tell a story, memoirists pay greater attention to their own personal experiences, especially to consciousness itself. Memory helps us to remember and rethink our past. When we write about and examine our memories, we explore their influence on an evershifting sense of individual and communal pasts and identities. Life history, which is also about memory, is concerned with the ways in which others’ life events potentially influence their experiences, perceptions, beliefs, and values.

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  1. McGill University, Canada

    Teresa Strong-Wilson

  2. McGill University, Canada

    Claudia Mitchell

  3. McGill University, Canada

    Allnutt Susann

  4. University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

    Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan

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Wang, Q. (2013). Thirty Years Before/After. In: Strong-Wilson, T., Mitchell, C., Susann, A., Pithouse-Morgan, K. (eds) Productive Remembering and Social Agency. Transgressions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-347-8_4

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