Research Catalog

Title

Borderland memories : searching for historical identity in post-Mao China / Martin T. Fromm.

Author

Fromm, Martin T., 1974-

Publication

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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Details

Description

xiii, 290 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"In the early 1980s, in the town of Heihe on China's northeast border with the Soviet Union in what was formerly northern Manchuria (Bei Man), a teacher, editor, and local Party official named Liu Banghou unearthed documents containing transcribed interviews that had been hidden away for over a decade during the political turmoil of the Cultural Revolution. Fifteen years earlier the Heilongjiang provincial government had sent a group of researchers to the Heihe vicinity to seek out and interview elderly residents who had migrated to the area before 1900 from "China Proper" (mostly Shandong and Hebei provinces). Specifically, they targeted individuals whose destinations had included Blagoveshchensk, the city directly across the river from Heihe on the Russian side, and an area just to the east of Blagoveshchensk formerly known as the "Sixty-Four Villages East of the River" (jiangdong liushisi tun) that had long been a source of dispute between the two countries"--

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China.

Subject

• 1949-2002
• Borderlands > China > Historiography
• Borderlands > Soviet Union > Historiography
• Nationalism and historiography > China
• Nationalism and collective memory > China
• Historiography
• History > Sources
• Nationalism and collective memory
• Nationalism and historiography
• China > History > Historiography. > 1976-2002
• China > History > Sources. > 1976-2002
• China > History > Historiography. > 1949-1976
• China > History > Sources. > 1949-1976
• China
• Soviet Union

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index.

Contents

Reconfiguring cultural production in the post-Mao transition -- Borderland ambiguities in narratives of modernization and liberation -- Relocating the nation outside the nation: forging a borderland-centered nationalist discourse -- The "historical science" of Wenshi Ziliao -- Affective community and historical rehabilitation: "widely making friends" to re-secure political loyalty -- Mobilizing a "patriotic united front" -- Local, regional, and national dynamics of Wenshi Ziliao production.

Call Number

JFE 19-6755

ISBN

• 9781108475921
• 1108475922

LCCN

2018056574

OCLC

1055456087

Author

Fromm, Martin T., 1974- author.

Title

Borderland memories : searching for historical identity in post-Mao China / Martin T. Fromm.

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China

Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index.

Chronological Term

1949-2002

Research Call Number

JFE 19-6755