Curating revolution: politics on display in Mao's China

How did China's Communist revolution transform the nation's political culture? In this rich and vivid history of the Mao period (1949–1976), Denise Y. Ho examines the relationship between its exhibitions and its political movements. Case studies from Shanghai show how revolution was curate...

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1. Verfasser: Ho, Denise Y. 1978- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi Cambridge University Press 2018
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China
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Zusammenfassung:How did China's Communist revolution transform the nation's political culture? In this rich and vivid history of the Mao period (1949–1976), Denise Y. Ho examines the relationship between its exhibitions and its political movements. Case studies from Shanghai show how revolution was curated: museum workers collected cultural and revolutionary relics; neighborhoods, schools, and work units mounted and narrated local displays; and exhibits provided ritual space for ideological lessons and political campaigns. Using archival sources, ephemera, interviews, and other materials, Ho traces the process by which exhibitions were developed, presented, and received. Examples under analysis range from the First Party Congress Site and the Shanghai Museum to the 'class education' and Red Guard exhibits that accompanied the Socialist Education Movement and the Cultural Revolution. Operating in two modes - that of a state in power and that of a state in revolution - Mao era exhibitionary culture remains part of China's revolutionary legacy
Beschreibung:xvi, 308 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781108406147
9781108417952

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