TY  - BOOK
AU  - Na,LI
TI  - Seeing History: Public History in China
T2  - Public History in International Perspective : Theory, Method, and Public Practice ,
SN  - 9783110996180
U1  - 994 
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - München, Wien : 
PB  - De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 
KW  - China
KW  - Erinnerung
KW  - Komplexität
KW  - Public History
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Public history
KW  - complexity
KW  - memory
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Author Biography --; Introduction: Complex Public History --; Part I: The Origin of Modern Public History in China --; Part II: Past Making in the Present: Presentations and Patterns --; Chapter 1 Chinese and the Pasts: Exploring Historical Consciousness of Ordinary Chinese --; Chapter 2 Oral History: History, Memory, and Identity --; Chapter 3 Family Narrative, Personal Memory, and Public History --; Chapter 4 Museums and the Public --; Chapter 5 When Environmental History Goes Public --; Chapter 6 Performing History: Cultural Memory in the Present --; Chapter 7 Playing the Past: Historical Video Games as Participatory Public History --; Chapter 8 Public History: The Future of Teaching the Past --; Part III: Prosuming History: A Paradigm Shift --; Epilogue: The Future of China’s Past --; Glossary (Chinese Characters) --; Permissions --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - When public history was imported from the United States to China around the turn of the twenty-first century, it was introduced as a sub-field within history, and has developed along that path ever since. Professional historians in China, even some forward-looking ones, see public history as merely presenting a change in the patterns of participation in history-making. This book offers a sharply different view. It contends, essentially, that public history represents more than a research domain within history or within any existing discipline, nor does it fit into any established narratives, but rather, a fundamental change of the entire process of history-making in China. In this process, the public is prosuming history. Public history makes obsolete the old structure for building and acquiring historical knowledge: it challenges the old assumptions, supersedes the rigid academic hierarchy, and stirs the imaginations of the multitudes. With an assemblage of case studies, this work makes a case for a system view of public history making, or public history(ing), and launches a concept, complex public history, i.e. public history(ing) as complex adaptive systems
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110983098
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110983098
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110983098/original
ER  -