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Re-Envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China

Re-Envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memory in Reform China

Lee, Ching Kwan
Yang, Guobin

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Chinese HistoryGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 0804758522
ISBN13: 9780804758529
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Jul 5 2007
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.11 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.12
Language: English

Popular memories of the revolutionary past have become a political and cultural force in China. Traumatic memory and active criticism make up part of this wave, but so does nostalgia for collective responsibility and for feelings of freedom and progress.

Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution is the first comprehensive study of contemporary memories of China's revolutionary epoch, from the time of Japanese imperialism through the Cultural Revolution. Path-breaking in its scope, the research in this volume carefully examines the memories of a wide range of social groups, including disenfranchised workers and rural women, who have often been neglected in scholarship. Looking at a variety of embodiments of memories--interviews, films, photo exhibits, museums, and websites--the authors, ranging from anthropologists to film studies specialists, present original research on the idea of memories as a cultural and political phenomenon. The result is an unprecedented and illuminating reexamination of the memory of, and occasionally nostalgia for, the Chinese Revolution.

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