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Image, Imagination and Imaginarium

Remapping World War II Monuments in Greater China

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Authors:
  1. Lu Pan

    1. Department of Chinese Culture, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

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  • Offers a foundation for the understanding of Chinese nationalism
  • Traces connections between the built environment and political space
  • Brings an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Chinese politics

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Lu Pan
    Pages 1-33

  3. Between Iconic Image and (Artificial) Ruins: Shanghai Sihang Warehouse and Chinese Modern Visuality of World War II

    • Lu Pan
    Pages 35-91

  4. (Forgotten)Landscape of Imperial War Memories in a (Post)Colonial City: Hong Kong’s Cenotaph and Beyond

    • Lu Pan
    Pages 93-158

  5. Imagining Imaginarium in Taipei: From Taiwan Jinja to National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine

    • Lu Pan
    Pages 159-243

  6. The Monument That Became Public Toilet: The New 1st Army Cemetery in Guangzhou

    • Lu Pan
    Pages 245-313

  7. Renaming Monument, Rewriting History: Chongqing’s War Victory Stele/Liberation Stele

    • Lu Pan
    Pages 315-374

  8. Conclusion

    • Lu Pan
    Pages 375-393

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 395-415
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About this book

This book explores five cases of monument and public commemorative space related to World War II (WWII) in contemporary China (Mainland), Hong Kong and Taiwan, all of which were built either prior to or right after the end of the War and their physical existence still remains. Through the study on the monuments, the project illustrates past and ongoing controversies and contestations over Chinese nation, sovereignty, modernism and identity. Despite their historical affinities, the three societies in question, namely, Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, vary in their own ways of telling, remembering and forgetting WWII. These divergences are not only rooted in their different political circumstances and social experiences, but also in their current competitions, confrontations and integrations. This book will be of great interest to historians, sinologists and analysts of new Asian nationalism.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Chinese Culture, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Lu Pan

About the author

PAN Lu received her PhD from Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong. Pan did her research as visiting fellow in Berlin Technical University, Harvard Yenching Institute, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum and Taipei National University of the Arts. She teaches Chinese Culture as an assistant professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Pan is author of two monographs: In-Visible Palimpsest: Memory, Space and Modernity in Berlin and Shanghai (Bern: Peter Lang, 2016) and Aestheticizing Public Space: Street Visual Politics in East Asian Cities (Bristol: Intellect, 2015). 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Image, Imagination and Imaginarium

  • Book Subtitle: Remapping World War II Monuments in Greater China

  • Authors: Lu Pan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9674-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9673-5Published: 03 January 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9676-6Published: 04 January 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-9674-2Published: 02 January 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 415

  • Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, Asian Politics, Cultural Studies

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