Never Forget National Humiliation
Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations is a 2012 political science book written by Zheng Wang.[1][2][3][4]
Plot
[edit]Wang's book investigates the reasons why the CCP managed to continue increasing its political power after the government's suppression of the Beijing Spring in 1899. He described Jiang Zemin's 1991 patriotic education campaign as a national re-education campaign, which required junior high and high schools to provide core history courses, as well as the construction of 100 "memory sites" regarding Chinese history, forty percent of which were related to past conflict and wars with foreign nations, such as Japan in its 1931-1945 war with China.[5][6]
The book has been described by researcher Su-Jeong Kang as focusing less on the actual events that occurred in the history of China and more than on "what the Chinese population chose to remember and what they chose to forget", thus attempting to explain the behavior of post-Tiananmen China through the lens of historical memory, which the book considers to be an influential factor in the molding of modern Chinese identity and worldview.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Kang, Su-Jeong (2015). "Zheng Wang, Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations: New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2012, 312p. $32.50 hardback; $25.00 paperback". Journal of Chinese Political Science. 20 (3): 367–368. doi:10.1007/s11366-015-9374-y. ISSN 1080-6954.
- ^ Singh, Prashant Kumar (2014-01-02). "Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations by Zheng Wang". Strategic Analysis. 38 (1): 122–124. doi:10.1080/09700161.2014.863509. ISSN 0970-0161.
- ^ Wilkinson, Constance (2022-09-01). "Book Review: Zheng Wang. Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations". Comparative Civilizations Review. 87 (87). ISSN 0733-4540.
- ^ Friedman, Edward (2013). "Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations. Zheng Wang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xiii + 293 pp. $32.50; £22.50 ISBN 978-0-231-14890-0". The China Quarterly. 213: 207–209. doi:10.1017/S0305741013000088. ISSN 0305-7410.
- ^ Schoppa, R. Keith (2015). "Zheng Wang. Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations". The American Historical Review. 120 (3): 994–995. doi:10.1093/ahr/120.3.994a. ISSN 1937-5239.
- ^ Weber, Torsten (2013-11-01). "Zheng Wang. Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012". Journal of International and Global Studies. 5 (1). doi:10.62608/2158-0669.1173. ISSN 2158-0669.