Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Languages of Memory -- A Memory Analogy -- The Form of the Content -- Part I. Types of Memory -- Chapter 2. Individual Memory and Forgetting -- The First (Psychological) Description of Consolidation -- Modeling Memory, Take 1: Two Leaky Buckets -- The First Neurobiological Explanation of Consolidation -- Retrograde Amnesia and Gaps in Time -- Modulation and Systems-Level Consolidation -- Modeling Memory, Take 2: Connectionist Models -- What Kinds of Memory Consolidate? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Defining Collective Memory -- A History of Collective Memory (in) Metaphors -- Maurice Halbwachs and Social Frameworks of Memory -- Memory "In the Group" versus "Of the Group" -- Memory in Modern Societies -- An Argument for Collective Memory -- Some Informal Collective Memory Examples -- Outline of a Collective Memory Experiment -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Three-in-One Model of Memory Consolidation -- Modeling Memory: The Two-Box Model -- Modeling Memory: The "Three-in-One" Model -- Consolidation of Scientific Memory: Take 1 -- Conclusion -- Part II. The Memory Consolidation Process -- Chapter 5. Buffering and Attention -- Hold That Thought! Temporary Storage in Individual Memory -- May We Have Your Attention, Please! -- Buffered Storage in Collective Memory -- Archives as Collective Memory Buffers -- The Modern Collective Working Memory -- The News Directs Public Attention -- (Counter)memorialization and the Presence of Absence -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Selection and Relationality -- Relationality in Individual Memory -- Anatomy of a Memory -- What Is the Meaning of It All? -- Relationality in Collective Memory -- Relationality and Intergroup Interaction -- Recursion in Collective Memory Relationality -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Generalization and Specialization.

Generalization and Specialization in Individual Memory -- Bartlett's Legacy: Schemas -- Bartlett's Schemata in Action -- Real and Imagined Narratives as Generalized Knowledge Constructs -- Generalization in Collective Memory -- Generalization and Modulation in Collective Memory -- Consolidating Stable Collective Science Memory: Take 2 -- Narratives and Collective Identities as Social Frameworks -- Recursion in Collective Memory Formation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8. Influence of the Consolidating Entity -- The Role of the Entity in Our Model -- Individual Entity Effects -- Collective Entity Effects -- The Laboratory as Entity -- Scientific versus Political Collective Memory Consolidation -- Conclusion -- Part III. Disruption of Consolidation -- Chapter 9. Collective Retrograde Amnesia -- The Social Hippocampus -- The Cultural Revolution as a Social Trauma -- The Thinking Generation and Their Literary Achievements -- The Cultural Revolution Targeted Chinese Religion -- The Cultural Revolution Targeted Chinese Literature -- Mainland Chinese versus Táiwān Chinese/Northern Thailand KMT Villagers -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10. Persistence of Consolidated Collective Memory -- The Trauma's Effect on Confucianism -- The Persistence of Memory for Confucianism in Government -- The Persistence in Collective Memory of the Confucian View of Human Nature -- The Trauma's Effect on Daoism -- Daoism in Modern Chinese Literature in Mainland China -- The Trauma's Effect on Buddhism -- The Persistence of Memory of Buddhism in Modern Chinese Literature -- Memory for Buddhism in Táiwān and Northern Thailand KMT Villages -- Conclusion -- Chapter 11. Loss of Unconsolidated Collective Memory -- The Thinking Generation's Memory for Hú Shì -- The Thinking Generation's Memory for Zhou Zuòrén -- The Thinking Generation's Memory for Shen Cóngwén.

Aborted Memory Consolidation: Zhāng Ailíng and Her Work (1942 to mid-1980s) -- Conclusion -- Chapter 12. Conclusions -- Construction in Individual Memory -- History as a Type of Collective Memory -- Soviet-Era History Textbooks as a Case Study of Collective Memory -- The Continuing Process of Collective Memory Consolidation -- References -- Index.