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Theorising place
No full textTo make a place is to create a location where its creators can feel they belong. Processes of place-making are still very much ongoing today. Geographers, sociologists, political scientists and philosophers of advanced capitalism have said that place is a localisation of the global. However, the creation of a place is not legible from such grand perspectives. It is also much more creative than can be predicted by translating large-scale processes into local cultures. Anthropologists have been sensitive to the intimate, tragic and lyrical senses of local place. But their theorising has been too much bound up with cosmology and insufficiently with the intermediate scales of state and local state. In this book, Stephan Feuchtwang and his contributors offer a set of historical, anthropological and scale-mediated studies from Chin
After the event: the transmission of grievous loss in Germany, China and Taiwan
No full textTwo of the most destructive moments of state violence in the twentieth century occurred in Europe between 1933 and 1945 and in China between 1959 and 1961, the Great Leap famine. This is the first book to bring the two histories together in order to examine their differences and to understand if there are any similar processes of transmission at work. The author expertly ties in the Taiwanese civil war between Nationalists and Communists, which included the White Terror 1947–87, a less well known but equally revealing part of twentieth-century history. Personal and family stories are told, often in the individual’s own words, and then compared with the public accounts of the same events as found in official histories, commemorations, school textbooks, and other forms of public memory. The author presents innovative and constructive criticisms of social memory theories in order to make sense both of what happened and how what happened is transmitted
Philanthropy and the religious life of goodness in China
Full text linkA history of religious philanthropic associations, given in this chapter, shows how different they are from their past equivalents under the imperial Chinese dynasties. While they are still dedicated to betterment of the world, ideas of goodness and of the civic self have changed radically. Examples of mainly Buddhist but also Christian and other associations are given to show that in Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well as in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), they accommodate themselves to secular charity and welfare, to models of political goodness and to modernizing conceptions of a civic self. And the scale of their activities is far larger and more organised, in what this chapter calls industrialized religious philanthropy.Accepted manuscript2021-08-0
Uyghur religion
No full textIn the history of the Uyghur people, Islam has become part of their ethnic identification by the republican governments of China. After isolation and control but local persistence in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), in the first two decades of reform Uyghur Islam flourished, but was then subjected to severe state repression, first in the scare of secession after the breaking up of the Soviet Union, and then the post-9/11 scare that turned any Uyghur resistance into terrorism, culminating in the sinicization policy of forced assimilation. A distinctly Uyghur Islam has indeed come about, but it is now largely domestic, when public manifestations of Islam and public Muslim authority have been eliminated
Breathing New Life into Beijing Culture : New ‘Traditional’ Public Spaces and the Chaoyang Neighbourhood Yangge Associations
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Remaking the self: spirituality, civilization and the Chinese quest for the good life in the reform era
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Memory Studies
No full textApfelbaum Erica, Alexander Sally, Barnier Amanda, Caygill Howard, Carruthers Mary, Coombes Annie, Feuchtwang Stephan, Radstone Susannah (eds), Memory : Histories, Theories, Debates, Fordham University Press, 2010. Assmann Jan, La mémoire culturelle : écriture, souvenir et imaginaire politique dans les civilisations antiques, (trad. Diane Meur), Paris, Aubier, 2010. Bergson Henri, Matière et mémoire, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2007. Dessingué Alexandre, “Towards a Phenomenology o..
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