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SoSe 19: Conflicting Memories in China: Texts, Images, and Institutions

Emily Mae Graf

Hinweise für Studierende

This course is designed for students of the Masterstudiengang Chinastudien but is open to all students with Chinese language skills interested in the topic of memory studies in the PRC and Taiwan. The class will be held in English, the final coursework can be submitted in English or German. Schließen

Kommentar

This course aims at improving students’ reading skills of Chinese texts, while at the same time training them in analytical approaches to visual materials and institutional structures. By analyzing texts, images, and institutions alike, the class helps them gain insights into various conflicting processes of memory-making in the PRC and Taiwan. The class raises the following research questions: How are historical figures (e.g. politicians, writers, artists, etc., such as Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren, or Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek) or historical periods and events (e.g. the May Fourth Movement or the Cultural Revolution on the Mainland – or the period of Japanese rule or the 228 Incident on Taiwan) remembered by society? How do memorial sites and museums in particular contribute to them entering the collective cultural memory of a society? How does their display change over time? And how can their display be read with and against the grain? The class is separated in three parts: I) Politics and Culture, II) Remembering, III) Forgetting. The three parts of the class are interspersed by three “image sessions”, in which students present images and their reading of them in short presentations (5-10 min each). Students are encouraged to engage with one memorial site of their choosing in their final coursework. Schließen

13 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Mi, 16:00 - 18:00 13 Termine

Mi, 10.04.2019 16:00 - 18:00

Dozenten:
Emily Mae Graf