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Memorializing Sent-Down Youth
List members might be interested in the following recent publication.--Magnus Fiskesjö <nf42 at cornell.edu>
Bury Me With My Comrades: Memorializing Mao's Sent-Down Youth
By Magnus Fiskesjö
Asia-Pacific Journal, Volume 16, Issue 14, Number 4 (July 15, 2018)
https://apjjf.org/2018/14/Fiskesjo.html
Abstract
Over the last decade or so, China has seen an unprecedented building boom of museums and memorials. One curious new genre is the museums for Mao-era "Cultural Revolution" youth "sent down" to the countryside by Mao during the 1960s and 1970s. After Mao's death, they struggled to return to the cities. Surviving returnees have recently established several museums commemorating their suffering and sacrifice, even though the topic is politically fraught and the period's history is strictly censored in official museums and histories. One museum, the Shanghai Educated Youth Museum, doubles as a memorial site and a collective cemetery for former sent-down youth who wish to be buried together. This paper locates these memorials and burial grounds in their historical and political context. It also reflects the Shanghai institutions' copying of the design and architecture of the Korea and Vietnam war memorials in Washington D.C.
Keywords: China, sent-down youth, museums, memorials, cemeteries
by denton.2 at osu.edu on July 17, 2018
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