A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era: Interview with Jie Li by Felix Wemheuer
"Studying Maoist China": An Academic Channel for Students and Scholars
Jie Li is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. She published "Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life" (Columbia UP 2014) and co-edited "Red Legacies: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution" (Harvard Asia Center 2016).
Felix Wemheuer is Professor for Modern China Studies at the University of Cologne. His publications include "Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union" (Yale UP 2014) and "A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change, 1949-1976" (Cambridge UP 2019).
We discussed her new book "Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era" (2020) www.dukeupress.edu/utopian-ruins
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Thank you for these very informative interviews!
Pertinent and good critical questions well answered. From my perspective, the society has to be portrayed fairly, because only then can an adequate sense of tragedy of what it was like to live in a society in which such horrible things happen, the sense of an intellectual, ultimately. So, the two-sidedness of becoming a perpetrator in the “mould created by Mao” (Yang Jisheng) and the fear of potentially becoming a victim (a sort of social insecurity) should arise from the stories of victims, rather than be treated as equally worth presenting in a memorial museum along side victims, and, just as undesirable, rather than be hidden from view or left to the imagination.
It seems to me as though the Lhasa crowd thinking a starving boy being punished for stealing food from a Buddhist temple were REALLY missing the point - as indeed many people do - about the Tibetan monastery system.
15:12 so the feudal regieme, was no hell for the poor, the serfs were just so called serfs, seemingly they were getting exploited for fun... .. ok, thats interesting
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She has her ideological standing, for sure. This is a book for the rightists actually, but the right-wing people may also not like it.