Image, Imagination and Imaginarium

Remapping World War II Monuments in Greater China

AvLu Pan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-01-03
Mått:148 x 210 x 28 mm
Vikt:668 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:415
Förlag:Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:9789811596735

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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).

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Between Iconic Image and (Artificial) Ruins: Shanghai Sihang Warehouse and WWII Memory in China.- Chapter 3: (Forgotten)Landscape of War Memories and Public Space in (Post)colonial City: Hong Kong’s Cenotaph and beyond.- Chapter 4: Imagining Imaginarium: National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine in Taipei.- Chapter 5: The Monument that became A Public Toilet: the New 1st Army Cemetery in Guangzhou.- Chapter 6: Renaming Monument, Rewriting History: Chongqing’s War Victory Stele/Liberation Stele.- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Visuality against Visuality—The Right to Look in East Asia and WWII Monuments in Greater China.