Overview
- Offers a foundation for the understanding of Chinese nationalism
- Traces connections between the built environment and political space
- Brings an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Chinese politics
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This book explores five cases of monument and public commemorative space related to World War II (WWII) in contemporary China (Mainland), Hong Kong and Taiwan, all of which were built either prior to or right after the end of the War and their physical existence still remains. Through the study on the monuments, the project illustrates past and ongoing controversies and contestations over Chinese nation, sovereignty, modernism and identity. Despite their historical affinities, the three societies in question, namely, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, vary in their own ways of telling, remembering and forgetting WWII. These divergences are not only rooted in their different political circumstances and social experiences, but also in their current competitions, confrontations and integrations. This book will be of great interest to historians, sinologists and analysts of new Asian nationalism.
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About the author
PAN Lu received her PhD from Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong. Pan did her research as visiting fellow in Berlin Technical University, Harvard Yenching Institute, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum and Taipei National University of the Arts. She teaches Chinese Culture as an assistant professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Pan is author of two monographs: In-Visible Palimpsest: Memory, Space and Modernity in Berlin and Shanghai (Bern: Peter Lang, 2016) and Aestheticizing Public Space: Street Visual Politics in East Asian Cities (Bristol: Intellect, 2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Image, Imagination and Imaginarium
Book Subtitle: Remapping World War II Monuments in Greater China
Authors: Lu Pan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9674-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9673-5Published: 03 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9676-6Published: 04 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-9674-2Published: 02 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 415
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, Asian Politics, Cultural Studies