Borderland memories, searching for historical identity in post-Mao China, Martin T. Fromm
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- Nationalism and collective memory -- China
- China -- History -- 1976-2002 -- Historiography
- Nationalism and historiography -- China
- Borderlands -- Soviet Union -- Historiography
- China -- History -- 1949-1976 -- Historiography
- Borderlands -- China -- Historiography
- China -- History -- 1976-2002 -- Sources
- China -- History -- 1949-1976 -- Sources
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Borderland memories, searching for historical identity in post-Mao China, Martin T. Fromm
Language
eng
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Borderland memories
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
1089286538
Responsibility statement
Martin T. Fromm
Series statement
Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of ChinaCambridge Social Sciences eBooks
Sub title
searching for historical identity in post-Mao China
Summary
In the 1980s, as China transitioned to the post-Mao era, a state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national histories. They took the form of written and transcribed personal testimonies of events that preceded the turmoil of both the Cultural Revolution and, in many cases, the Communist victory in 1949. Known as wenshi ziliao, these publications represent an intense process of historical memory production that has received little scholarly attention. Hitherto unexamined archival materials and oral histories reveal unresolved tensions in post-Cultural Revolution reconciliation and mobilization, informing negotiations between local elites and the state, and between Party and non-Party organizations. Taking the northeast Russia-Manchuria borderlands as a case study, Martin T. Fromm examines the creation of post-Mao identities, political mobilization, and knowledge production in China.--, Provided by publisher
Table of contents
Reconfiguring cultural production in the post-Mao transition -- Borderland ambiguities in narratives of modernization and liberation -- Relocating the nation outside the nation: forging a borderland-centered nationalist discourse -- The "historical science" of Wenshi Ziliao -- Affective community and historical rehabilitation: "widely making friends" to re-secure political loyalty -- Mobilizing a "patriotic united front" -- Local, regional, and national dynamics of Wenshi Ziliao production
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