From Destruction to Reconstruction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingjie Guo
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Past Century ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Confucian Values

The preservation and expansion of the ‘Three Confucian Sites’ at Qufu are no doubt driven by tourism, but a more important reason is the Chinese Communist Party’s change of heart about China’s cultural heritage and national identity since 1989. In 2013, President Xi Jinping unequivocally abandoned the Party’s decades-long tradition of iconoclasm and confirmed its return to Chinese cultural roots. Governments at various levels have now set about promoting Confucian values and fostering a Confucian identity. While the effects of the state’s nation-building remain to be seen, there is no denying that China’s disremembered Confucian heritage is being re-materialised, re-interpreted and re-invented as never before in the People’s Republic of China or during the past century.

scholarly journals The Unmaking of Indigeneity

Poliarchia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 97-118
Author(s):  
Natalia Koper
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Movie Industry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Building Project

This paper contributes to the debate on racialized and deracialized representations of the category of indigeneity in Mexican cinematography during the Golden Age (1935–1959) as a response to the post‑revolutionary nation‑building project. Based on the analysis of representative movies of that period, I argue that the cinematography reflected indigenista public policies, aimed at homogenizing the society by incorporating indigenous people to the society as Mexicans. Insofar as the state narrative displaced the notion of indigeneity towards the “past” – as a foundation of the national cultural heritage – movie industry romanticized and exoticized the indigenous, but at the same time, it portrayed indigenous characters as submissive and even obsolete, thus perpetrating the colonial archetype of oppression. Images situated in the present, however, rejected any ethnic differentiation, and instead replaced it with a class‑based model of social interactions, but in reality the “raceless” ideal of national identity would continue to ascribe indigeneity to lower social strata.

Borders, Ideology, Geography and Maps – The Case of Israel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan Perlman
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Geographic Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
Israeli Government ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
Mental Mapping ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Education Support

Although there are dozens of countries with present day border disputes, few have received such unrelenting international focus as Israel. Maps, cartography and geographic education support the developing doctrine of national boundaries that form collective national identity and ideology. Geographically, throughout the past century, the borders of Israel have become a melding of the phenomena of national identity with physical territory – also referred to as territorial socialization. My paper argues that Israel’s use of geographic description of borders specifically through cartography over time is an example of how boundaries are a powerful tool in the naturalization of ideology of Jewish Israelis. This argument is analyzed by examining historical and biblical cartography, territorial evolution, geography curriculum and textbooks, the Atlas of Israel and mental mapping by citizens. Varying portrayals of Israel’s historical, biblical, natural and political boundaries creates an ambiguous definition of Israel’s borders for citizens. In turn, this importantly shapes the present day religious and seculargeographies of the population of Israel as well as the political behaviours by the democratically representative Israeli government.

Cultural security of minorities under threat. The situation of the Uyghurs in the People’s Republic of China

2021 ◽  
Vol 202 (4) ◽  
pp. 719-733
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Szyszlak
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The State ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Fundamental Significance

The main objective of the article is to analyse the state of cultural security of the Uyghur minority. Due to the fundamental significance of identity and culture for the functioning of national minorities, it belongs from their perspective to the most crucial sectors of security, especially since a whole range of threats concerns it. The text uses the case study method, and the situation of the Uyghur minority in the People’s Republic of China has been chosen as an example. The following parts of the study define the terms used in the article, characterize the Uyghur minority, and indicate the most critical threats to its cultural security. These include the processes of migration together with the accompanying processes of urbanization and industrialization, the destruction of cultural heritage, threats in the area of culture and education, and dangers related to the state’s policy towards Islam and the potential radicalization of its Uyghur followers.

Law and the Politics of the Past: Legal Protection of Cultural Heritage in Greece

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 547-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphne Voudouri
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
International Experience ◽  
The Past ◽  
Source Countries ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Of Greece

AbstractThis article examines the main lines of Greek legislation on antiquities and on cultural heritage in general, in the course of its history, with an emphasis on the innovations and continuity of the current Law 3028 of 2002. It attempts to place the Greek case in the context of the relevant international experience and the broader debate about ownership of the past. It throws light on the relationship between the legal framework of antiquities and the formation and fostering of national identity in Greece, and on their close connection with the state, while at the same time criticizing the view that opposes a “cultural internationalist” approach to heritage to the “cultural nationalism” of Greece and other source countries.

Mao, Tibet, and the Korean War

2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael M. Sheng
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Chinese Leader ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party

In October 1950 the Chinese leader Mao Zedong embarked on a two-front war. He sent troops to Korea and invaded Tibet at a time when the People's Republic of China was burdened with many domestic problems. The logic behind Mao's risky policy has baffled historians ever since. By drawing on newly available Chinese and Western documents and memoirs, this article explains what happened in October 1950 and why Mao acted as he did. The release of key documents such as telegrams between Mao and his subordinates enables scholars to understand Chinese policymaking vis-à-vis Tibet much more fully than in the past. The article shows that Mao skillfully used the conflicts for his own purposes and consolidated his hold over the Chinese Communist Party.

‘Een homo is minder verdacht dan een held’ : Literaire verbeeldingen van Michiel de Ruyter en het nationale-identiteitsdebat na 2001

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-194
Author(s):  
Marc van Zoggel
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
National History ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range

Abstract Historically, the glorification of the past and the eulogizing of national heroes in art and literature have been constructive elements in the process of nation building. In the postmodern era, however, a cultivation of national history and its great men and women is often regarded outdated or even suspect and regressive. The ‘nine eleven’ terrorist attacks in the United States and the rise and assassination of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn intensified an ongoing debate in the Netherlands about the meaning and value of a shared ‘Dutch national identity’ in a multicultural, diversified society. In this article, I argue that several novels and poems about Dutch naval hero Michiel de Ruyter (1607-1676), published in or in the wake of the ‘De Ruyter year 2007’, both reproduce and challenge a wide range of voices, viewpoints and sentiments within the hot topic of national identity in the twenty-first century.

Prospects for China to end-2019

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
70Th Anniversary ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
At Home

Subject Prospects for China to end-2019. Significance President Xi Jinping will meet US President Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Japan a few days hence. At home, celebrations will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the People’s Republic of China on October 1. Tensions will rise over across the Taiwan Strait, and over Washington’s relations with Taipei, as elections in Taiwan in January approach.

Open Letter to Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China

2014 ◽  
Vol 97 (8) ◽  
pp. 795-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Delmonico ◽  
Jeremy Chapman ◽  
John Fung ◽  
Gabriel Danovitch ◽  
Adeera Levin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
Open Letter ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Republic Of China
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