Licheng Qian
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Licheng Qian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Licheng |
| FAMILY NAME | Qian |
| SIGNATURE | QIAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zhejiang University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9204-8567 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Betting on Macau
Remembering the Nanjing Massacre in China
The memory of the Nanjing Massacre has been debated around the ‘nationalism vs cosmopolitanism’, ‘victimhood vs victory’, and ‘state ideology vs local agency’ theses. Which theses stand out today? What mechanisms translate broader political agendas into concrete, sometimes diverse, mnemonic discourses? What factors, alongside politics, shape Chinese historical memory? By studying a state memorial and a civilian museum, this article argues that 1)…
Debating national identity in postcolonial cities
Civic education has long been viewed as a political tool to construct identity in nation‐states. This view, however, is complicated by the cases of Hong Kong and Macau. As former colonies and current autonomous regions of China, the two cities went through decolonisation without becoming nation‐states. Does this status affect Hong Kong's and Macau's identity discourses? Are civic textbooks tools to construct or deconstruct a Chinese/national iden…
Making memory work
In the global fight against COVID-19, a “pandemic memory thesis” emerges. This thesis argues that nations with memories of past pandemics, such as East Asian countries with SARS memories, can better control the COVID-19 pandemic today. Yet, if this thesis holds, why hadn’t the SARS memory helped China prevent the outbreak of COVID-19? Why, however, can China swiftly contain the pandemic in its later stages by exploiting the SARS memory? To addres…
Consuming a difficult past unapproved
What role does consumption play in remembering a difficult past unacknowledged by the state? By analyzing the consumption of Chairman Mao symbols in contemporary China, this article explores the memory of a difficult past under censorship with ambiguous rules, that is, imposed discursive ambiguity, and puts forward a theory of mnemonic displacement centering on two generational mechanisms: denial and diversion. The “attendant generation” has expe…
The Cultural Sociology of China
In this essay, we review the burgeoning field of the cultural sociology of China. We first describe the trajectory and features of the development of the cultural sociology of China. We argue that the evolution of this scholarship has involved three intertwined social, political, and intellectual processes across national boundaries: (1) the production, diffusion, reception, and reproduction of modern social scientific paradigms from the West, es…
Does History Education Promote Nationalism in China? A ‘Limited Effect’ Explanation
Most studies of Chinese nationalism are based on an unstated and unexamined assumption that history education in Chinese schools can effectively instill the official memory of the anti-Japanese war into students. This article tests this assumption through a multi-method study based on a survey, a textual analysis and qualitative interviews with high school students and teachers. The findings show that history education (including both in-class an…
Does History Education Promote Nationalism in China? A ‘Limited Effect’ Explanation
Most studies of Chinese nationalism are based on an unstated and unexamined assumption that history education in Chinese schools can effectively instill the official memory of the anti-Japanese war into students. This article tests this assumption through a multi-method study based on a survey, a textual analysis and qualitative interviews with high school students and teachers. The findings show that history education (including both in-class an…
Debating national identity in postcolonial cities
Civic education has long been viewed as a political tool to construct identity in nation‐states. This view, however, is complicated by the cases of Hong Kong and Macau. As former colonies and current autonomous regions of China, the two cities went through decolonisation without becoming nation‐states. Does this status affect Hong Kong's and Macau's identity discourses? Are civic textbooks tools to construct or deconstruct a Chinese/national iden…
Making memory work
In the global fight against COVID-19, a “pandemic memory thesis” emerges. This thesis argues that nations with memories of past pandemics, such as East Asian countries with SARS memories, can better control the COVID-19 pandemic today. Yet, if this thesis holds, why hadn’t the SARS memory helped China prevent the outbreak of COVID-19? Why, however, can China swiftly contain the pandemic in its later stages by exploiting the SARS memory? To addres…
The Cultural Sociology of China
In this essay, we review the burgeoning field of the cultural sociology of China. We first describe the trajectory and features of the development of the cultural sociology of China. We argue that the evolution of this scholarship has involved three intertwined social, political, and intellectual processes across national boundaries: (1) the production, diffusion, reception, and reproduction of modern social scientific paradigms from the West, es…
Does History Education Promote Nationalism in China? A ‘Limited Effect’ Explanation
Most studies of Chinese nationalism are based on an unstated and unexamined assumption that history education in Chinese schools can effectively instill the official memory of the anti-Japanese war into students. This article tests this assumption through a multi-method study based on a survey, a textual analysis and qualitative interviews with high school students and teachers. The findings show that history education (including both in-class an…
The Cultural Sociology of China
In this essay, we review the burgeoning field of the cultural sociology of China. We first describe the trajectory and features of the development of the cultural sociology of China. We argue that the evolution of this scholarship has involved three intertwined social, political, and intellectual processes across national boundaries: (1) the production, diffusion, reception, and reproduction of modern social scientific paradigms from the West, es…
Consuming a difficult past unapproved
What role does consumption play in remembering a difficult past unacknowledged by the state? By analyzing the consumption of Chairman Mao symbols in contemporary China, this article explores the memory of a difficult past under censorship with ambiguous rules, that is, imposed discursive ambiguity, and puts forward a theory of mnemonic displacement centering on two generational mechanisms: denial and diversion. The “attendant generation” has expe…
Making memory work
In the global fight against COVID-19, a “pandemic memory thesis” emerges. This thesis argues that nations with memories of past pandemics, such as East Asian countries with SARS memories, can better control the COVID-19 pandemic today. Yet, if this thesis holds, why hadn’t the SARS memory helped China prevent the outbreak of COVID-19? Why, however, can China swiftly contain the pandemic in its later stages by exploiting the SARS memory? To addres…
Debating national identity in postcolonial cities
Civic education has long been viewed as a political tool to construct identity in nation‐states. This view, however, is complicated by the cases of Hong Kong and Macau. As former colonies and current autonomous regions of China, the two cities went through decolonisation without becoming nation‐states. Does this status affect Hong Kong's and Macau's identity discourses? Are civic textbooks tools to construct or deconstruct a Chinese/national iden…
Betting on Macau
Remembering the Nanjing Massacre in China
The memory of the Nanjing Massacre has been debated around the ‘nationalism vs cosmopolitanism’, ‘victimhood vs victory’, and ‘state ideology vs local agency’ theses. Which theses stand out today? What mechanisms translate broader political agendas into concrete, sometimes diverse, mnemonic discourses? What factors, alongside politics, shape Chinese historical memory? By studying a state memorial and a civilian museum, this article argues that 1)…
Sociology (5 works) · China (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (2 works)