1st Edition

Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons

Edited By Andreas Leutzsch Copyright 2019
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

Historical parallels, analogies, anachronisms and metaphors to the past play a crucial role in political speeches, historical narratives, iconography, movies and newspapers on a daily basis. They frame, articulate and represent a specific understanding of history and can be used not only to construct but also to rethink historical continuity. Almost-forgotten or sleeping history can be revived to... Read more

List of contributors





1. Prefiguring future by constructing history (Introduction)



Andreas Leutzsch





2. Analogy, Allegory and Anachronism



Peter Burke





3. The Subversive Power of Historical Analogies



Antoon De Baets





4. The Tapestry of History: Parallels, Analogies, Metaphors



Javier Fernández-Sebastián





5. Driving with the rearview mirror? Historical analogies and European foreign policy



Roland Vogt





6. Handing over memories: The transnationalisation of memorials and the construction of collective memory in post-war and postcolonial Hong Kong



Andreas Leutzsch





7. The Sieve of Memory: Chinese Coming to Terms with the Past and Parallels in European Cultures of Remembrance



C. K. Martin Chung





8. Generational conflict in context of the Cultural Revolution in Chinese movies since 1990



Barbara von der Lühe





Index

Biography

Andreas Leutzsch is a historian and social scientist who holds a PhD from Bielefeld University. He has worked as Researcher and (Visiting) Professor in China, Hong Kong, Germany, Russia and Uzbekistan. His research in global studies and theory of history was awarded the A.SK Social Science Award Fellowship by the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) in 2007.