Contemporary Chinese TV Serials
Configuring Collective Memory of Socialist Nostalgia via the Cultural Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2163389 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shenshen Cai (Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 22-35 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08949468.2016.1108821 |
| OpenAlex | W2203882876 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 12 |
Using China's Cultural Revolution as a representative historical event, this article examines how the collective memory and popular history revolving around it are manufactured and interpreted in televisual media narratives. The collective memory of the Cultural Revolution, as I will show, is constructed and not preserved, and the collective framework of memory, as the predominant thoughts and the governing ideological rhetoric of society, configures people's memories of past events. A textual analysis of the TV drama, The Place Where Dreams Start [Meng kaishi de difang, 1998], a typical revolutionary nostalgia text, will expose the process of collective memory concerning the Cultural Revolution for what it is—cultural amnesia that is misleading and regressive
Aesthetics · Amnesia · Art · China · Collective memory · Collective unconscious · Cultural memory · Cultural revolution · Drama · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Rhetoric · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |