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Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China

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Price: $60.00 hardcover; $24.95 paperback
Publisher
Woodrow 乐鱼 体育 Press with Stanford University Press, 2007
ISBN
hardcover 978-0-8047-5852-9; paperback 978-0-8047-5853-6
Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China, edited by Ching Kwan Lee and Guobin Yang

  • Popular memories of the revolutionary past have become a political and cultural force in China. Traumatic memory and active criticism make up part of this wave, but so does nostalgia for collective responsibility and for feelings of freedom and progress.

    Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution is the first comprehensive study of contemporary memories of China鈥檚 revolutionary epoch, from the time of Japanese imperialism through the Cultural Revolution. Path-breaking in its scope, the research in this volume carefully examines the memories of a wide range of social groups, including disenfranchised workers and rural women, who have often been neglected in scholarship. Looking at a variety of embodiments of memories鈥攊nterviews, films, photo exhibits, museums, and websites鈥攖he authors, ranging from anthropologists to film studies specialists, present original research on the idea of 鈥渕emories as a cultural and political phenomenon.鈥 The result is an unprecedented and illuminating reexamination of the memory of, and occasionally nostalgia for, the Chinese Revolution.

    Ching Kwan Lee is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan; her research has focused on labor and social problems in China today. Guobin Yang is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University. Both were Fellows at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2003鈥4.

Popular memories of the revolutionary past have become a political and cultural force in China. Traumatic memory and active criticism make up part of this wave, but so does nostalgia for collective responsibility and for feelings of freedom and progress.

Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution is the first comprehensive study of contemporary memories of China鈥檚 revolutionary epoch, from the time of Japanese imperialism through the Cultural Revolution. Path-breaking in its scope, the research in this volume carefully examines the memories of a wide range of social groups, including disenfranchised workers and rural women, who have often been neglected in scholarship. Looking at a variety of embodiments of memories鈥攊nterviews, films, photo exhibits, museums, and websites鈥攖he authors, ranging from anthropologists to film studies specialists, present original research on the idea of 鈥渕emories as a cultural and political phenomenon.鈥 The result is an unprecedented and illuminating reexamination of the memory of, and occasionally nostalgia for, the Chinese Revolution.

Ching Kwan Lee is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan; her research has focused on labor and social problems in China today. Guobin Yang is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University. Both were Fellows at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2003鈥4.

Editors

Ching Kwan Lee
Ching Kwan Lee
Fellow;
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Guobin Yang
Guobin Yang
Fellow;
Associate Professor, The Annenberg School for Communication at University of Pennsylvania