Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era

by Jie Li

Book Overview

In Utopian Ruins 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. Li proposes a critical framework for understanding the documentation and transmission of the socialist past that mediates between nostalgia and trauma, anticipation and retrospection, propaganda and testimony. Assembling each chapter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478010185
• ISBN13: 9781478010180
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"