Places of memory in modern China
Subtitle: history, politics, and identity
By: edited by Marc Andre Matten
Series: Leiden series in comparative historiography -- v. 5
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9789004219014
Subjects: Collective memory; Chinese National characteristics; Nationalism; Historic sites; Taiwan National characteristics
Table of contents: title: History, memory, and identity in modern China / Marc Andre Matten; title: Qin Shihuang's terracotta warriors and commemorating the cultural state / David J. Davies; title: The Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall in Taipei : a contested place of memory / Marc Andre Matten; title: A place where great men rest? : the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall / Daniel Leese; title: A rock, a text, and a tablet : making the Song Emperor's terrace a lieu de memoire / Hon Tze-ki; title: "This is how the Chinese people began their struggle" : Humen and the Opium War as a site of memory / James Flath; title: The ruins of Yuanmingyuan, or, How to enjoy a national wound / Lee Haiyan; title: Yan'an as a site of memory in socialist and postsocialist China / Kirk A. Denton.