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Made in China Journal: Volume 7, Issue 1, 2022
Edited by: Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere

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Cultural theorist Svetlana Boym famously distinguished two types of nostalgia: a restorative one that ‘manifests itself in total reconstructions of monuments of the past’; and a reflective one that ‘lingers on ruins, the patina of time and history, in the dreams of another place and another time’. But nostalgia is not necessarily only backward-looking. Rather, it can represent a feeling of longing for a future yet to be lost or even realised. For the historian Roxanne Panchasi, nostalgia may originate in the ways in which people anticipate and plan their lives around an expected future. This anticipated future, Panchasi intimates in her 2009 book Future Tense, ‘can tell us a great deal about the cultural preoccupations and political perspectives of the present doing the anticipating’. In these and other ways, nostalgia can actualise in cultural expression and performance within communities of nostalgia and as immersive environments that shine a light on past trauma to move closer to reconciliation. Contributors to this issue of the Made in China Journal explore the workings of nostalgia in people’s memories and spaces in China from a variety of perspectives to uncover how and why admirers of the Maoist and post-socialist eras express their longings for pasts real, imagined, and somewhere in between.
Details
- ISSN (print):
- 2652-6352
- ISSN (online):
- 2206-9119
- Publication date:
- Aug 2022
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/MIC.07.01.2022
- Journal:
- Made in China Journal
- Disciplines:
- Social Sciences: Politics & International Studies, Social Policy & Administration
- Countries:
- East Asia: China
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Op-eds
- Everything is Different, but Nothing Has Changed: The Past Decade for China’s Workers (PDF, 2.0MB) – China Labour Bulletin [doi]
- China’s Ratification of the ILO Forced Labour Conventions: A Hollow Gesture? (PDF, 0.9MB) – Nicola Macbean [doi]
China Columns
- Ethics in Social Science Research on China (PDF, 0.8MB) – Björn Alpermann [doi]
Focus
- On Nostalgia and Returns (PDF, 1.0MB) – Jennifer Hubbert [doi]
- From Grassroots Nostalgia to Official Memory: Red Relics in Contemporary China (PDF, 1.2MB) – Emily Williams [doi]
- Magic, Religion, and the Naturalisation of Chinese Communist Party Rule (PDF, 1.1MB) – Frank N. Pieke [doi]
- Newborn Socialist Things: A Conversation with Laurence Coderre (PDF, 0.6MB) – Laurence Coderre, Matthew Galway, and Christian Sorace [doi]
- Ambivalent Nostalgia: Commemorating Zhiqing in the Jianchuan Museum Complex (PDF, 1.6MB) – Lisheng Zhang [doi]
- ‘The Mine Was Our Home’: Narrativising Nostalgia between Socialist and Post-Socialist Mining Zones (PDF, 0.9MB) – Ruiyi Zhu [doi]
- Johnnie Got His Gun, While Liang Took Up the Plough: Nostalgia in the United States and China, Then and Now (PDF, 0.7MB) – Stephen Roddy [doi]
- Mainlanders’ Nostalgic Writing in Taiwan: Memory, Identification, and Politics (PDF, 0.8MB) – Phyllis Yu-ting Huang [doi]
- Peasant Worker Communist Spy: A Chinese Intelligence Agent Looks Back at His Time in Cambodia (PDF, 1.3MB) – Matthew Galway [doi]
Forum
- Covid among: Us Viral Mobilities in Shenzhen’s Moral Geography (PDF, 1.7MB) – Mary Ann O’Donnell [doi]
- The Shanghai Lockdown as a Chronotope: The Biopolitics of Zero Covid, Auto-Immunisation, and the Security Discourse (PDF, 1.8MB) – L. G. [doi]
- Lockdown Sound Diaries: Podcasting and Affective Listening in the Shanghai Lockdown (PDF, 2.7MB) – Jing Wang [doi]
- Outsourcing Repression: A Conversation with Lynette Ong (PDF, 0.6MB) – Hong Zhang [doi]
Conversations
- The Urbanisation of People: A Conversation with Eli Friedman (PDF, 0.6MB) – Ivan Franceschini and Eli Friedman [doi]
- Contributors (PDF, 0.5MB)
- Bibliography (PDF, 0.7MB)
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