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.
Assembling each chapter like a Memorial exhibit,.
Li proposes a critical framework for understanding the documentation and transmission of the socialist past that mediates between nostalgia and trauma, anticipation and retrospection, propaganda and testimony.
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