Utopian Ruins - A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era

Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and cataclysmic reverberations.

List of contents

Series Editor's Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. Mediating Memories of the Mao Era  1
1. Blood Testament  25
2. Surveillance Files  68
3. Utopian Photographs  100
4. Foreign Lenses  150
5. Factory Rubble  192
6. Museums and Memorials  227
Epilogue. Notes for Future Curators  261
Notes  277
Bibliography  321
Index

About the author

Jie Li

Summary

Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and cataclysmic reverberations.

Product details

• Authors: Jie Li
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781478011231
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-1123-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Sinotheory
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries