Memories of Tiananmen : : Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989-2019 / / Francis Lee, Joseph Man Chan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Lee, Francis,; Chan, Joseph Man,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: China: From Revolution to Reform ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

This book analyzes how collective memory regarding the 1989 Beijing student movement and the Tiananmen crackdown was produced, contested, sustained, and transformed in Hong Kong between 1989 and 2019. Drawing on data gathered through multiple sources such as news reports, digital media content, vigil onsite surveys, population surveys, and in-depth interviews with activists, rally participants, and other stakeholders, it identifies six key processes in the dynamics of social remembering: memory formation, memory mobilization, memory institutionalization, intergenerational transfer, memory repair, and memory balkanization. Memories of Tiananmen demonstrates how a socially dominant collective memory, even one the state finds politically irritable, can be generated and maintained through constant negotiation and efforts by a wide range of actors. While the book mainly focuses on the interplay between political changes and Tiananmen commemoration in the historical period within which the society enjoyed a significant degree of civil liberties, it also discusses how the trajectory of the collective memory may take a drastic turn as Hong Kong's autonomy is abridged. The book promises to be a key reference for anyone interested in collective memory studies, social movement research, political communication, and China and Hong Kong studies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Memory Formation and the Valorization of Commemoration -- 3 Memory Mobilization -- 4 Intergenerational Memory Transmission -- 5 The Struggle for Memory Institutionalization -- 6 The Challenge of Localism and Memory Repair -- 7 Changing Attitudes toward Tiananmen? -- 8 Digital Media and Memory Balkanization -- 9 Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- References -- Index