Popular memories of the Mao era : from critical debate to reassessing history / edited by Sebastian Veg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Veg, Sebastian, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--China--History--20th century.

Collective memory.

History.

China--History--1949-1976.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 244 pages) : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 Introduction: Trauma, Nostalgia, Public Debate p. 1 / Sebastian Veg

Part I Unofficial Memories in the Public Sphere: Journals, Internet, Museums

2 Writing about the Past, an Act of Resistance; An Overview of Independent Journals and Publications about the Mao Era p. 21 / Jean-Philippe Béja

3 Annals of the Yellow Emperor: Reconstructing Public Memory of the Mao Era p. 43 / Wu Si

4 Contested Past: Social Media and the Production of Historical Knowledge of the Mao Era p. 61 / Jim Liu

5 Can Private Museums Offer Space for Alternative History? The Red Era Series at the Jianchuan Museum Cluster p. 80 / Kirk A. Denton

Part II Critical Memory and Cultural Practices: Reconfiguring Elite and Popular Discourse

6 Literary and Documentary Accounts of the Great Famine: Challenging the Political System and the Social Hierarchies of Memory p. 115 / Sebastian Veg

7 Filmed Testimonies, Archives, and Memoirs of the Mao Era: Staging Unofficial History in Chinese independent Documentaries p. 137 / Judith Pernin

8 Visual Memory, Personal Experience, and Public History: The Rediscovery of Cultural Revolution Underground Art p. 161 / Aihe Wang

Part III Unofficial Sources and Popular Historiography: New Discourses of Knowledge on the Mao Era

9 The Second Society p. 183 / Frank Dikötter

10 Case Files as a Source of Alternative Memories from the Maoist Past p. 199 / Daniel Leese

11 Popular Memories and Popular History, indispensable Tools for Understanding Contemporary Chinese History: The Case of the End of the Rustication Movement p. 220 / Michel Bonnin.

Notes:

"The present book grew out of two conferences ... the first held in Paris in December 2014 at the Maison des sciences de l'homme and the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales and the second held in Hong Kong in November 2015 at the University of Hong Kong."--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789888455614

9888455613

Publisher Number:

99980614123

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