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Space, Ceremonies And Social Memory

Posted on:2008-04-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2208360215453842Subject:Special History
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Directly stimulated by the textbook event of the Education Ministry of Japan, the memorial hall of the victims in Nanjing massacre by Japanese invaders was completed and opened to the public in 1985. For more than 20 years, the memorial hall has become well-known as its hardware facilities and software investment have been greatly increased and improved. As a carrier in which the public mourn for the victims in Nanjing massacre and bear in mind the suffering of the Chinese nation, the memorial hall plays an important guidance role in strengthening the public memory concerning the historical event of Nanjing massacre, and has realized the original intention of building rational social memory.This thesis is just being took the construction of social memory by the memorial hall as the center of investigation from dimensionality of "space" and "rite". The author discusses it chiefly according to historical materials such as files and documents,newspapers and magazines,interviews, and also combines with theories and methods of sociology and psychology. In "space" dimensionality, the author expounds that the memorial hall brings the guidance of memory into play mainly sets from the establishment of location,the symbolic construction of structure space and the atmosphere building of display space. In "rite" dimensionality, the author selects "the rite of mourning for the 300000 victims in Nanjing massacre by Japanese invaders on December 13", which is held relatively regular by the national government, to narrate the evolution of the rite's organization in content and the propaganda utterance and so on over the years, and analyze its background characteristic of times and connotation of politics and culture which are implicit. Exactly under the interaction of the dimensionality, the memorial hall realizes building rational social memory. Moreover, the author stretches from this, and attempts to provide a new visual angle of observation, to explain the relationship between the memorial hall and social memory.
Keywords/Search Tags:the memorial hall of the victims in Nanjing massacre by Japanese invaders, space, rite, social memory
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