Exhibiting the Past : : Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China / / Kirk A. Denton.
During the Mao era, China's museums served an explicit and uniform propaganda function, underlining official Party history, eulogizing revolutionary heroes, and contributing to nation building and socialist construction. With the implementation of the post-Mao modernization program in the late...
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 75 illustrations, 2 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. National Origins and Local Identity Museums of Premodern History
- Chapter 2. Exhibiting the Revolution The Museum of the Chinese Revolution
- Chapter 3. Commodification and Nostalgia Revolutionary History in the Era of the Market Economy
- Chapter 4. Martyrdom and Memory Monuments, Memorials, and Museums for Dead Heroes
- Chapter 5. Martial Glory and the Power of the State Military Museums
- Chapter 6. Heroic Resistance and Victims of Atrocity Negotiating the Memory of Japanese Imperialism
- Chapter 7. Heroic Models and Exemplary Leaders Memorial Halls
- Chapter 8. Literary Politics and Cultural Heritage Modern Literature Museums
- Chapter 9. Ethnic Minorities and the Construction of National Identity Ethnographic Museums
- Chapter 10. Revolutionary Memory and National Landscape Red Tourism
- Chapter 11. Museums of the Future Municipal Urban Planning Exhibition Halls
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author