Denise Y. Ho

Curating Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Curating Revolution examines how Mao-era exhibitions shaped popular understandings of, and participation in, the political campaigns of China's Communist revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781108417952
• ISBN-10: 1108417957
• Artikelnr.: 48136239

Autorenporträt

Denise Y. Ho is assistant professor of twentieth-century Chinese history at Yale University, Connecticut. Her research interests focus on the social and cultural history of China during the Mao period (1949-1976), and her work has been supported by a Fulbright scholarship and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, among other organizations. In addition to her scholarly research, Denise Y. Ho has been a commentator on contemporary China for media outlets including The Atlantic, China File, and The Nation. She is currently a Public Intellectuals fellow at the National Committee on US-China Relations.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Making a revolutionary monument: the first party congress site
2. Exhibiting new China: 'Fangua lane past and present'
3. Curating belief: superstition versus science for young pioneers
4. Cultivating consciousness: the class education exhibition
5. The cultural revolution's object lessons: the exhibition of red guard achievements
6. Antiquity in revolution: the Shanghai museum
Conclusion
Bibliography
Chinese character list
Index.