Local Remembering and National Forgetting: Memory Politics in Modern China

本项目旨在探讨地方记忆和国家遗忘的政治，以及它们在塑造现代中国国家与社会关系中的作用。该项目希望对中国近代历史的关键叙事产生新的见解，以及当地博物馆如何重塑这些叙事，以对抗提升某些记忆并压制其他记忆的官方话语。预期成果包括加强对遗产和记忆在中国当代文化政治中的作用的理论和经验知识。对澳大利亚的重大利益将包括对中国文化政治优先事项，特别是亚太地区文化政治优先事项的更微妙和多层面的理解的新知识。

This project aims to explore the politics of local remembering and national forgetting, and their roles in shaping state-society relationships in modern China. The project expects to generate new insights into key narratives of China’s recent past, and how they are recast by local museums to counter official discourses that elevate certain memories and suppress others. Expected outcomes include enhancing theoretical and empirical knowledge of the roles of heritage and memory in China’s contemporary cultural politics. Significant benefits to Australia will include new knowledge towards a more nuanced and multidimensional understanding of China’s priorities in cultural politics, especially in the Asia-Pacific region.