Seeing History: Public History in China /

Seeing History: Public History in China / / LI Na.

When public history was imported from the United States to China around the turn of the twenty-first century, it was introduced as a sub-field within history, and has developed along that path ever since. Professional historians in China, even some forward-looking ones, see public history as merely...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
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Na, LI,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Public History in International Perspective : Theory, Method, and Public Practice , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 289 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Author Biography
  • Introduction: Complex Public History
  • Part I: The Origin of Modern Public History in China
  • Part II: Past Making in the Present: Presentations and Patterns
  • Chapter 1 Chinese and the Pasts: Exploring Historical Consciousness of Ordinary Chinese
  • Chapter 2 Oral History: History, Memory, and Identity
  • Chapter 3 Family Narrative, Personal Memory, and Public History
  • Chapter 4 Museums and the Public
  • Chapter 5 When Environmental History Goes Public
  • Chapter 6 Performing History: Cultural Memory in the Present
  • Chapter 7 Playing the Past: Historical Video Games as Participatory Public History
  • Chapter 8 Public History: The Future of Teaching the Past
  • Part III: Prosuming History: A Paradigm Shift
  • Epilogue: The Future of China’s Past
  • Glossary (Chinese Characters)
  • Permissions
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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