{"id":2182,"date":"2022-03-09T17:11:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T17:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2022-05-27T16:26:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T16:26:41","slug":"apr-7-at-5pm-book-talk-the-landscape-of-historical-memory-w-dr-kirk-denton-in-person-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/taiwan\/2022\/03\/09\/apr-7-at-5pm-book-talk-the-landscape-of-historical-memory-w-dr-kirk-denton-in-person-online\/","title":{"rendered":"[Postponed] Book Talk: The Landscape of Historical Memory w\/ Dr. Kirk Denton (in-person & online)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updates (Apr 15, 2022): The book talk has been postponed until Autumn Quarter 2022. Date\/Time\/Location TBA. We will update the event information as soon as the details are confirmed. Thank you for your understanding!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We are returning to in-person events!<\/p>\n

Please join us for\u00a0Professor Kirk A. Denton’s book talk on the political narratives that surround Taiwan\u2019s museums!<\/p>\n

The Landscape of Historical Memory: The Politics of Museums and Memorial Culture in Post\u2013Martial Law Taiwan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Book Talk with Professor Kirk A. Denton (Professor Emeritus of Chinese literature, Ohio State University)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"The Landscape of Historical Memory<\/strong><\/em> explores the place of museums and memorial culture in the contestation over historical memory in post\u2013martial law Taiwan. The book is particularly oriented toward the role of politics\u2014especially political parties\u2014in the establishment, administration, architectural design, and historical narratives of museums. It is framed around the wrangling between the \u201cblue camp\u201d (the Nationalist Party, or KMT, and its supporters) and the \u201cgreen camp\u201d (Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP, and its supporters) over what facets of the past should be remembered and how they should be displayed in museums. Organized into chapters focused on particular types of museums and memorial spaces (e.g., archaeology museums, history museums, martyrs\u2019 shrines, war museums, memorial halls, literature museums, ethnology museums, and ecomuseums), the book presents a broad overview of the state of museums in Taiwan in the past three decades. The case of Taiwan museums tells us much about Cold War politics and its legacy in East Asia; the role of culture, history, and memory in shaping identities in the \u201cpostcolonial\u201d landscape of Taiwan; the politics of historical memory in an emergent democracy, especially in counterpoint to the politics of museums in the People\u2019s Republic of China, which continues to be an authoritarian single party state; and the place of museums in a neoliberal economic climate.<\/p>\n

\"\"Kirk Denton<\/strong> is Professor Emeritus of Chinese literature at Ohio State University. He studied at Colby College and the University of Toronto. For more than twenty years he has edited the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture<\/em> and oversaw the rich collection of materials at the MCLC Resource Center. Prof. Denton wrote The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling<\/em> and Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China<\/em>. His edited volumes include Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893-1945<\/em>, China: A Traveler\u2019s Literary Companion<\/em>, The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature<\/em> and Jottings under Lamplight: Lu Xun<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Updates (Apr 15, 2022): The book talk has been postponed until Autumn Quarter 2022. Date\/Time\/Location TBA. We will update the event information as soon as the details are confirmed. Thank you for your understanding! We are returning to in-person events! Please join us for\u00a0Professor Kirk A. Denton’s book talk on the political narratives that surround<\/p>\n

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