Popular Memories of the Mao Era : From Critical Debate to Reassessing History /

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The present volume provides an overview of new forms of popular memory, in particular critical memory, of the Mao era. Focusing on the processes of private production, public dissemination, and social sanctioning of narratives of the past in contemporary China, it examines the relation between popul...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Veg, Sebastian (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Collective memory > China > History > 20th century.
China > History > 1949-1976.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : trauma, nostalgia, public debate / Sebastian Veg
  • part I. Unofficial memories in the public sphere : journals, internet, museums
  • Writing about the past, an act of resistance : an overview of independent journals and publications about the Mao era / Jean-Philippe Beja
  • Annals of the Yellow Emperor : reconstructing public memory of the Mao era / Wu Si
  • Contested past : social media and the production of historical knowledge of the Mao era / Jun Liu
  • Can private museums offer space for alternative history? The Red Era Series at the Jianchuan Museum Cluster / Kirk A. Denton
  • part II. Critical memory and cultural practices : reconfiguring elite and popular discourse
  • Literary and documentary accounts of the Great Famine : challenging the political system and the social hierarchies of memory / Sebastian Veg
  • Filmed testimonies, archives, and memoirs of the Mao era : staging unofficial history in Chinese independent documentaries / Judith Pernin
  • Visual memory, personal experience, and public history : the rediscovery of Cultural Revolution underground art / Aihe Wang
  • part III. Unofficial sources and popular historiography : new discourses of knowledge on the Mao era
  • The second society / Frank Dikötter
  • Case files as a source of alternative memories from the Maoist past / Daniel Leese
  • Popular memories and popular history, indispensable tools for understanding contemporary Chinese history : the case of the end of the rustication movement / Michel Bonnin.

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