Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons

ISBN-13: 9780367660598 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 212 str.

Andreas Leutzsch

Opis

To rethink theories of history, iconology and collective memory, the authors of this volume discuss a variety of cases from Hong Kong, China and Europe.

Spis treści

List of contributors

1. Prefiguring future by constructing history (Introduction)

Andreas Leutzsch

2. Analogy, Allegory and Anachronism

Peter Burke

3. The Subversive Power of Historical Analogies

Antoon De Baets

4. The Tapestry of History: Parallels, Analogies, Metaphors

Javier Fernández-Sebastián

5. Driving with the rearview mirror? Historical analogies and European foreign policy

Roland Vogt

6. Handing over memories: The transnationalisation of memorials and the construction of collective memory in post-war and postcolonial Hong Kong

Andreas Leutzsch

7. The Sieve of Memory: Chinese Coming to Terms with the Past and Parallels in European Cultures of Remembrance

C. K. Martin Chung

8. Generational conflict in context of the Cultural Revolution in Chinese movies since 1990

Barbara von der Lühe

Index

O autorze

Andreas Leutzsch is a historian and social scientist who holds a PhD from Bielefeld University. He has worked as Researcher and (Visiting) Professor in China, Hong Kong, Germany, Russia and Uzbekistan. His research in global studies and theory of history was awarded the A.SK Social Science Award Fellowship by the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) in 2007.