Introduction: The Manchu conquest: self, writing, and remembrance -- The past and present, genre, and the body -- Ding Yaokang and Kong Shangren: community and postmemory -- The deliverance play: locating the body as of self: Staging the self-journey: a fantastic experience of trauma -- Surviving trauma: individual body vs. the social body -- Investigating trauma: poetics of forgetting in the wake of subaltern cultural sphere -- Transcending trauma: root of emotions and deliverance -- On roaming: literary community and communal reading -- Memoirs and diary: the feeling body and place-making: "Ten days in Yangzhou": the productive body and politics of emotions -- "A record of life beyond my due": endangered body and emotional containment of the past -- Beyond trauma: quotidian experience and landscape as place-making -- Self and place-making: acculturating the mountains for emotional company -- Community and place-making: cultural knowledge and memories -- The past and the present: emotional depth attained through bodily senses -- Literary escapes from trauma: Reorganizing the past to foreshadow the kalpa -- Delving into the kalpa in order to exit -- Post-kalpic self: a displaced traveler stranded in Beijing -- Plays: negotiating a communal self in dramatic illusion -- The novel: authorial personae in a textual community -- The erotic novel: the sinful past and the ailing body: Apocalyptic vision: reading history as reading the present -- Fictional characters as geographical subjects: Yinguo and root of desire -- Jinlian and Chunmei: disembodied emotional commitment to the past -- Ximen Qing: memory, self-identity, and home -- The historical play: postmemory and the bleeding body: "Investigations": archiving remembrance from the conquest generation -- Dramatizing the Southern Ming: history as learning and self-discovery -- Re-membering history in order to remember -- The peach blossom fan and the peach blossom spring: locating sites of remembrance.