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China's guided memory: How historical events are remembered, glorified, reinterpreted, and kept quit
- Source :
- SWP Comment
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), 2020.
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Abstract
- In 2019, China commemorated several anniversaries of politically significant events in its recent history: the May Fourth Movement (100 years), the foundation of the People’s Republic of China (70 years), the Tibet Uprising (60 years), the beginning of the reform and opening policy (40 years), and the massacre on Tiananmen Square (30 years). How China officially commemorates these events - or does not - weighs heavily on the country’s domestic and foreign policy. The state-constructed interpretations of his­tory as a claim to power are directed not only at Chinese society, but also at foreign partners interacting with China, especially governments and companies. The conceal­ment of problematic events from the past is alarming, not least because it in­creases the danger that historical mistakes will be repeated. (author's abstract)
- Subjects :
- China
culture of remembrance
Politikwissenschaft
Instrumentalisierung
Geschichtsbild
instrumentalization
Protestbewegung
Tibet
Erinnerungspolitik
Bewertungsprobleme
Vorschlag/Initiative
Tiananmen-Massaker (04.06.1989)
Kritik
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Political science
Reformpolitik
interpretation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
criticism
reform policy
founding of a state
protest movement
Staatsgründung
student movement
conception of history
Ereignis
Studentenbewegung
ddc:320
incident
Erinnerungskultur
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- SWP Comment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d23b87724c90e2b8203fbdf8a4dbf806