Places of Memory in Modern China

History, Politics, and Identity
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-21901-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography

In the last decades, the scholarship on issues of national and cultural identity of China has been constantly on a rise. This edited volume aims at addressing these issues by applying Pierre Nora’s approach of places of memory (lieux de mémoire) to the Chinese context.

The volume assembles a number of articles that focus on the most significant places of memory in modern and contemporary China, ranging from Qin Shihuang’s Terracotta Warriors to the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall. The genesis and nature of these places are discussed in detail by combining approaches of both cultural and historical sciences. In addition, issues of cultural memory and politics are addressed in order to question the ideological construction of these places.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the modern history of China, the issues of cultural memory and national identity in a transforming China, the significance of historical and national consciousness in Chinese society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matten, Marc Andre

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. History, Memory, and Identity in Modern China
Marc Andre Matten
Leaders and Their Legacy
2. Qin Shihuang’s Terracotta Warriors – Commemorating the Cultural State
David J. Davies
3. The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei: A Contested Place of Memory
Marc Andre Matten
4. A Place Where Great Men Rest? The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall
Daniel Leese
The Ubiquitous Past—Present and Lost
5. A Rock, a Text, and a Tablet: Making the Song Emperor’s Terrace a Lieu de Mémoire
Hon Tze-ki
6. China Resists: Humen as a Site of Memory
James Flath
7. The Ruins of Yuanmingyuan: Or, How to Enjoy a National Wound
Lee Haiyan
8. Yan’an as a Site of Memory in Socialist and Postsocialist China
Kirk Denton

Über Autor(innen)

Matten, Marc Andre
Marc Andre Matten (Ph.D. 2007, University of Bonn, Germany) is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Chinese History at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He has published extensively on the issues of Chinese nationalism and national identity, including The Borders of Being Chinese – On the Creation of National Identity in 20th century China (German, Harrassowitz, 2009).

Marc Andre Matten (Ph.D. 2007, University of Bonn, Germany) is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Chinese History at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He has published extensively on the issues of Chinese nationalism and national identity, including The Borders of Being Chinese – On the Creation of National Identity in 20th century China (German, Harrassowitz, 2009).