1st Edition
Cultures of Memory in Asia Dynamics and Forms of Memorialization
Introduction. Struggling to Remember: Memory, Representation, and Contention by Chong Ja Ian 1. Cultural Memories of State Violence: A Comparative Study of Kwangju and Hiroshima by Kim Mikyoung 2. The Making of Tiananmen Square as a Realm of Contested Memories by Pan Tsung-Yi 3. From Dictator to Hero: Marcos, Heroes Cemeteries, and Sites of Cultural Memory by Jocelyn S. Martin 4. The Praxis of Memory: The Royal Statue of King Prajadhipok by Thanavi Chotpradit 5. Reshuffling History: From Mengkerang to Party, Image (Film) and it’s Overflowing History/Time Index System by Au Sow-Yee 6. (Un-)Representability of History and Visualisation of Memory by Wu Chieh-Hsiang 7. Exorcising Memory through Cold Confessions? Testimonial Literature and the Problems of Ethics by Shao Yuh-Chuan 8. The Politics and Promise of Memory: The White Terror in Taiwan as Example by Huang Han-Yu
Biography
Chieh-Hsiang Wu is a Professor in the Department of Arts at the National Changhua University of Education in Taiwan. She is a former Chairperson of Taiwan’s Association of Visual Arts and since 2021 she has serves as the Director of the Taiwan Association of Cultural Policy Studies.
