UsesofthePastinModernChina

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This undergraduate seminar studies “places of memory” in modern China, or the sites, museums, monuments, and memories of the past. Integrating primary sources as well as interdisciplinary readings from anthropology, art history, cultural studies, and history, this course features case studies including the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, the Monument to the People’s Heroes, the Rent Collection Courtyard, and the ruins of Yuanmingyuan. These case studies will offer ways of thinking about official and unofficial history, and the role of the past in contemporary culture, society, and politics.