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Memories of Tiananmen : Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989-2019

Author :  Francis L. F. Lee and Joseph M. Chan

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Country
Netherlands
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN 9789463728447
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2021
Bib. Info 360p. ; 156x234mm. Includes Index
Categories Conflict and Peace East Asia and North East Asia Media Studies
Product Weight 700 gms.
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This book analyzes how collective memory regarding the 1989 Beijing student movement and the Tiananmen crackdown was produced, contested, sustained, and transformed in Hong Kong between 1989 and 2019. Drawing on data gathered through multiple sources such as news reports, digital media content, vigil onsite surveys, population surveys, and in-depth interviews with activists, rally participants, and other stakeholders, it identifies six key processes in the dynamics of social remembering: memory formation, memory mobilization, memory institutionalization, intergenerational transfer, memory repair, and memory balkanization. Memories of Tiananmen demonstrates how a socially dominant collective memory, even one the state finds politically irritable, can be generated and maintained through constant negotiation and efforts by a wide range of actors. While the book mainly focuses on the interplay between political changes and Tiananmen commemoration in the historical period within which the society enjoyed a significant degree of civil liberties, it also discusses how the trajectory of the collective memory may take a drastic turn as Hong Kong's autonomy is abridged. The book promises to be a key reference for anyone interested in collective memory studies, social movement research, political communication, and China and Hong Kong studies.

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