■Date & Time
Monday, October 30, 2017/ 18:15～19:45
■Venue
Room 960, Bldg.#14, Waseda Campus
■Lecturer
Wang Yi
A Ph.D. candidate at Waseda University, currently teaching at Temple University, Japan Campus.
His research interests include memory and identity, Chinese foreign relations, international relations theory, and media.
■Abstract
Chinese nationalism has become a topic of growing concern in international academic and media circles since the 1990s, and scholars have started to pay attention to the role of collective memory in the making of Chinese nationalism. China’s war memory (here referring to the memory of the wars China had fought against foreign powers in the “century of humiliation”, which had played a central role in making of Chinese patriotic discourse), left an enduring legacy in China’s political culture. The existing literature has made valuable contributions in the study of Chinese war memory, but some aspects are still under-researched. For example, where does officially interpreted memory come from? How has it changed historically? How does society react to the construction of dominant memory? What specific kind of national identity and nationalism does war memory shape? As in many other countries, mnemonic practices in China include both continuity and change, dominance and resistance, and integrity and contestation. This study adopts historical and sociological perspectives to advance the research on the making and remaking of Chinese memory and identity.
■Coordinator
Naoyuki UMEMORI（Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics）
Manuel YANG(Junior Researcher, ORIS)
■Language
English
■Audience
Students, faculty, staff and general public
■Admission
Free
