12 Digital Documentaries, Making Memory, Solitary Spectatorship

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of Figures and Tables v
4. List of Contributors vi
5. Acknowledgements viii
6. Introduction: The Digitalisation of Curating Collective Memories and Heritage in China 1
7. 1 From the Archive to the Public Sphere: The Digital Rebirth of an Underground Journal 37
8. 2 How Do Netizens Remember? Digital Memory Work in the History of the Chinese Internet 51
9. 3 Digital Memory and Islam in China: Archiving ‘Arab style’ Mosques on Social Media 66
10. 4 Mediating Queer Memory in Chinese Digital Video Documentaries 82
11. 5 Resistance of the Stone and Fragmented Digital Collective Memory in Gulou, China 99
12. 6 Minitrue in Action: Contesting ‘Correct Collective Memory’ on Chinese Social Media 120
13. 7 Curating the ‘Real Xinjiang’: Hyperreal Spectacles and the Making of Collective Memory 138
14. 8 Assembling Digital Memories: The Curation of Baiku Yao Costumes 163
15. 9 Curating the Rural: Douyin’s Rural Guardians and Platformised Memory-making 184
16. 10 Potato Patriotism: Consuming War Memory in China 202
17. 11 Smart Museums, Heritage and Curation: An Empirical Study in Hangzhou, China 221
18. 12 Digital Documentaries, Making Memory, Solitary Spectatorship 239
19. Conclusion: China’s Evolving Curatorial Practices 257
20. Index 270