Curating revolution : politics on display in Mao's China
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Curating revolution : politics on display in Mao's China
Politics on display in Mao's China
Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China
Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China.
Author:
Ho, Denise Y., 1978- author.
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9781108417952
9781108406147
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Publication Information:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Physical Description:
xvi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series:
Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China
Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China.
Contents:
Making a revolutionary monument : the First Party Congress site -- Exhibiting New China : "Fangua Lane past and present" -- Curating belief : superstition versus science for Young Pioneers -- Cultivating consciousness : the class education exhibition -- The Cultural Revolution's object lessons : the Exhibition of Red Guard Achievements -- Antiquity in revolution : the Shanghai Museum.
Abstract:
"How did China's Communist revolution transform the nation's political culture? In this rich and vivid history of the Mao period (1949-1976), Denise Y. Ho examines the relationship between its exhibitions and its political movement"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-286) and index.
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