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The "Socialist Transformation" of Memory: Reversing Chinese History through "Pernicious-Vestiges" Media Discourse

The "Socialist Transformation" of Memory: Reversing Chinese History through "Pernicious-Vestiges" Media Discourse

Liu, Yusi
Ma, Ye

Paperback

Series: China Perspectives

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032530138
ISBN13: 9781032530130
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 19 2024
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Through discourse analysis and a historical comparison of Pernicious-Vestiges narratives in the news text of People's Daily, this book is devoted to revealing primary metaphors of Pernicious-Vestiges and political functions in China.

Pernicious-Vestiges (Yí Dú 遗毒) is one of the most frequently used words in contemporary Chinese historical narration, as well as a constantly changing rhetorical direction in New China's media discourse, whose function is to remold memory. Over the past 76 years, the Pernicious-Vestiges narrative continuously constructed by People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, have reflected the views of China's political elite and represented the ruling party's evaluation and reevaluation of historical events. The findings of this book challenge the myth that memory is naturally superior to forgetting, reflect on the ethics of memory in Pernicious-Vestiges narratives and the erasure of their own justice, and suggest that the critical space compressed by Pernicious-Vestiges narratives should be returned to restore the order of memory and historical reflection.

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