Private museum as public space: Local remembering and memory politics in Yan’an, China

IF 1.4 2区 心理学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES
Yujie Zhu
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In memory studies, museums and memorials have been actively employed in constructing and reinterpreting the social memories of nation-states and sub-groups within national populations. As such, scholarly debates have often focused on the roles of social and political elites in creating national remembrance. This article provides an alternative theoretical and empirical lens that focuses on China’s local memory practices and initiatives within the context of private museums and their dynamic interaction with the state. It examines how grassroots communities in Yan’an use private museum space to commemorate, interpret and negotiate local histories promoted by political elites. While local governments actively promote official sites of memory in Yan’an as the roots of Chinese communism for patriotic education, the private museum offers an alternative form of public space for social gatherings and memory transmission. Instead of promoting a grand narrative of the founding of the nation, the private museum focuses on local folk culture and the representation of the everyday landscape in response to rapid social change. Such forms of local commemoration are not driven by radical social movements that challenge the dominant historical narrative of ruling elites. Instead, they provide spaces for local communities to safely negotiate, communicate and sometimes compromise within and through official constraints. The findings contribute to our understanding of memory politics and its roles in shaping the state-society relationships of modern China.
作为公共空间的私人博物馆:中国延安的地方记忆与记忆政治
在记忆研究中,博物馆和纪念馆被积极用于构建和重新诠释民族国家和国家人口中的子群体的社会记忆。因此,学者们的争论往往集中在社会和政治精英在创造民族记忆中的作用。本文提供了另一种理论和实证视角,重点关注中国民办博物馆背景下的地方记忆实践和举措,以及它们与国家之间的动态互动。文章探讨了延安的基层社区如何利用私人博物馆空间来纪念、诠释和协商政治精英所推动的地方历史。在地方政府积极推动将延安作为中国共产主义的根基来进行爱国主义教育的官方记忆场所的同时,私人博物馆为社会聚会和记忆传承提供了另一种形式的公共空间。民办博物馆不提倡宏大的建国叙事,而是关注当地民俗文化和日常景观的再现,以应对快速的社会变革。这种形式的地方纪念活动并非由挑战统治精英主流历史叙事的激进社会运动所推动。相反,它们为当地社区提供了安全协商、交流的空间,有时还在官方限制范围内或通过官方限制达成妥协。这些发现有助于我们理解记忆政治及其在塑造现代中国国家与社会关系中的作用。
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Memory Studies
Memory Studies Multiple-
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2.30
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期刊介绍: Memory Studies is an international peer reviewed journal. Memory Studies affords recognition, form, and direction to work in this nascent field, and provides a critical forum for dialogue and debate on the theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues central to a collaborative understanding of memory today. Memory Studies examines the social, cultural, cognitive, political and technological shifts affecting how, what and why individuals, groups and societies remember, and forget. The journal responds to and seeks to shape public and academic discourse on the nature, manipulation, and contestation of memory in the contemporary era.
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