Utopian Ruins

In Utopian Ruins Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China''s Mao era by envisioning a virtual museum that reckons with both its utopian yearnings and its cataclysmic reverberations. Li proposes a critical framework for understanding the documentation and transmission of the socialist past that mediates between nostalgia and trauma, anticipation and retrospectio...