The reproduction of imagination
How Do Non-Experiencers Remember History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5700489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xueying Wang (0000-0003-3430-2317, Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Chen Li (0000-0001-6150-8594, Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Geer Wu (0000-0003-4629-2865, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 558-572 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527258.2024.2320323 |
| OpenAlex | W4391991717 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 65 |
In 1937, for a period of six weeks, the Imperial Japanese murdered approximately 300,000 people, including civilians, in Nanjing, China. This historical event is known as the Nanjing Massacre. As few survivors remain, studies on memory consumption can clarify how modern Chinese individuals remember this event. By writing the individual back into collective memory, this study identifies the importance of the Chinese state in fashioning individual remembrance of the Nanjing Massacre from the audience’s perspective. Specifically, drawing on the theoretical frameworks of remembrance and sites of memory, we analysed the interaction between memory consumers, memory representations, and memory makers. We focused on the relationship between visitors and the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders and how the state permeated this process. This study adds to the literature by offering an empirical study of memory consumption. Through participant observations and 23 semi-structured interviews with visitors, we found that education systems and media constructed visitors’ pre-existing memories of the Nanjing Massacre. During their visit, the prosthetic memories of the interviewees were reproduced and re-verified. After they left the Memorial Hall, visitors’ reshaped memories awaited arousal at a future time
Aesthetics · Art · Biology · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Psychoanalysis · Reproduction · Visual arts · Communication · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Psychology · Ecology
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Lives, laws, and language
Scripts in memory for text
Memory, Individual and Collective
Holocaust in American Life
Oral Tradition as History
The Making of "The Rape of Nanking"
Memory and History
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Hot interpretations of difficult heritage
Memory politics and material culture
Memorial space and its mnemonic function
Memory as a means of governmentality
Why memory's work on journalism does not reflect journalism's work on memory
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Memory, media, and museum audience’s discourse of remembering
In Sweden
News media logic in a New Institutional perspective
China’s ‘info-web’
Memory, Empathy, and the Politics of Identification
Heritage Tourism
The Japanese History Textbook Controversy in East Asian Perspective
Sites of memory
From museum to memory institution
Journalistic Uses of Collective Memory
Sites of memory’ of the Holocaust
Politics of memories
One land and three narratives
Towards a psychology of collective memory
Forgetting to remember, remembering to forget
A new model for memory work
Geographies of memory, place and identity
Accessing audiences
Memory, Distortion, and History in the Museum
Finding Meaning in Memory
Between Memory and History
Enhancing our understanding of museum audiences
Collective Memory and Cultural Identity
Post-totalitarian national identity
Prosthetic Memory
Mediated Massacre
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |