The Temple of Memories: History, Power and Morality in a Chinese Village.(Review)

From: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: Stafford, Charles | Copyright information

JING, JUN. xii, 217 pp, illus., bibliogr. Stanford: Univ. Press; Cambridge: Univ. Press, distributors, 1996. [pounds]25.00

This book is a very significant contribution to the anthropology of social memory, to the ethnography of China and also to our understanding of that high point of Maoist insanity, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. In The temple of memories, Jun Jing provides an admirably readable, straightforward and thoughtful account of this disturbing era ...

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