Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Socialist China’s New Exhibitions: Rethinking Class, Material Culture, and Propaganda
UC Berkeley's Institue of East Asian Studies presents a colloquium on material culture and its relation to socialist propaganda.
When:
September 28, 2018 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Where
This talk examines the origins and Mao-era elaborations on “new exhibitions” in socialist China, the practice of displaying personal possessions as a way to articulate meanings of class in both “old China” and “new China.” During the Socialist Education Movement, “class education exhibitions” linked material objects to class status, arguing for the persistence of class and the need for “continuous revolution.” When the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966, Red Guards created exhibitions from the confiscated materials of the “house search.” Taken together, these two kinds of exhibitions demonstrate the role of material culture in political propaganda. The two case studies, part of the recent book Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China (Cambridge, 2018), suggest that the exhibitionary culture of the Mao era taught individuals how to participate in its political campaigns.
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