纪念空间与社会记忆

陈蕴茜认为,社会记忆是国家与社会运作的重要合法性来源,作为其载体的纪念空间日益受到重视。纪念空间与社会记忆之间的辩证关系是纪念空间得以存在并发挥塑造社会记忆功能的基础,而且在近代中国,纪念空间的转换与社会记忆的塑造更具有现代性与本土性。

Wang Xiaokui observes that evolving from an interpretive framework of the cultural construction of modern nation states, memory studies has been expanded to encompass the entire realm of modern social culture and provides a possible approach to current cultural issues. Given the corporeality and subjectivity of memory, a multi-disciplinary perspective is necessary to counter a flat and stereotypical tendency in the studies. As far as collective memory is concerned to Hu Heng, amnesia is not the residue of memory; on the contrary, memory results from amnesia. Categorizing collective memories into three forms, he explores the possibility of constructing an amnesia theatre in an effort to establish the connections between past and present, and to make history an integral part in our lives. Chen Yunqian considers social memory an important source of a country and society＇s legitimacy. As concrete sites of social memory, memorial space has gained mounting attention in the recent decades. The dialectics between memorial space and social memory lays the foundation for the former＇s existence and agency. Modern China is found to be a case in point, which has witnessed a quickened sense of modernity and locality in the conversion of memorial space and the construction of social memory.