Places of memory in modern China : history, politics, and identity / / edited by Marc Andre Matten.
In the last decades, the scholarship on issues of national and cultural identity of China has been constantly on the rise. This edited volume aims at addressing these issues by applying Pierre Nora’s approach of places of memory ( lieux de mémoire ) to the Chinese context. The volume assembles a num...
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| Superior document: | Leiden series in comparative historiography, v. 5 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Leiden series in comparative historiography ;
v. 5. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- History, memory, and identity in modern China / Marc Andre Matten
- Qin Shihuang's terracotta warriors and commemorating the cultural state / David J. Davies
- The Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall in Taipei : a contested place of memory / Marc Andre Matten
- A place where great men rest? : the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall / Daniel Leese
- A rock, a text, and a tablet : making the Song Emperor's terrace a lieu de memoire / Hon Tze-ki
- "This is how the Chinese people began their struggle" : Humen and the Opium War as a site of memory / James Flath
- The ruins of Yuanmingyuan, or, How to enjoy a national wound / Lee Haiyan
- Yan'an as a site of memory in socialist and postsocialist China / Kirk A. Denton.