Book contents
- Chairman Mao’s Children
- Chairman Mao’s Children
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Winners’ Stories
- 2 Unequal Memories
- 3 The Wasted Years and a Land of Wonder
- 4 Regretless Youth and Long Live Youth!
- 5 Nostalgia, Resistance, and the Pursuit of Happiness
- 6 “Comrades from Five Lakes and Four Seas!”
- Conclusion
- Appendix Methods and Data
- References
- Index
4 - Regretless Youth and Long Live Youth!
Exhibits and Museums as Sites of Memory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2021
- Chairman Mao’s Children
- Chairman Mao’s Children
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Winners’ Stories
- 2 Unequal Memories
- 3 The Wasted Years and a Land of Wonder
- 4 Regretless Youth and Long Live Youth!
- 5 Nostalgia, Resistance, and the Pursuit of Happiness
- 6 “Comrades from Five Lakes and Four Seas!”
- Conclusion
- Appendix Methods and Data
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 4, I examine “sites of memory”: the exhibits in the 1990s and museums since the 2000s. I show that memory entrepreneurs and dynamics of cultural production fields result in a pattern of representation centered on “people but not the event.” Such a pattern, however, provokes even more public debates than expected.
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- Chairman Mao's ChildrenGeneration and the Politics of Memory in China, pp. 141 - 173Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021