ABSTRACT
The experiences of Europe and China and their different cultures and histories in the twentieth century are drawn together in the twentieth century by the two great events of the Holocaust and the Cultural Revolution. In China, the scar literature' of the 1970s seeks to give a voice to the sufferings of the people of China during the Cultural Revolution in fictions, like Yu Hua's searing novel To Live and the work of the Nobel Prize winning writer Mo Yan. Drawing upon the work of Dideir Pollefeyt and his essay 'Ethics, Forgiveness and the Unforgiveable after A. Auschwitz' Yang offers three models or 'views of evil'. Like Auschwitz, the Cultural Revolution typically manifested a kind of combined historical force of collective unconsciousness, and also typically exposed the one-sidedness and limitations of values and ideals in the earthly world. Of course Auschwitz and the Cultural Revolution cannot simply be equated.
