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National identity, collective memory, and mnemonic engineering
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National identity, collective memory, and mnemonic engineering
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inventing a Chinese nationality from 1949 through 1987
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Yeh
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Hsin-Yi
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1976-
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Hsin-Yi Yeh
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Eviatar Zerubavel
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chair
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McLean
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Paul
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Paul McLean
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internal member
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Mische
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Ann
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Ann Mische
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Yael
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Yael Zerubavel
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2014
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2014-05
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eng
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Nation is an imagined collectivity, but the establishment of a state apparatus does not automatically resonate with publics. Nationbuilding is the extra effort required to lead people to imagine they are members of a specific nation. This dissertation argues that nationbuilding should be regarded as an ongoing social process of leading people to remember their national identity through mnemonic engineering. As an intentional effort, mnemonic engineering strategically employs mnemonic techniques not only to lead its audience to commemorate a standardized shared past, present, and future, but also to refresh people’s collective memory on a regular basis. The invention of a Chinese nationality by the Kuomintang (KMT) government serves as the case to unravel the process of nation-remembering and the characteristics of mnemonic engineering. Occupying only a tiny portion of the physical territory, via synecdoche, the KMT government negated the legitimacy of People’s Republic of China governance and maintained itself as the legitimate government of the Chinese nation and the authentic descendant of “The 5,000-Year Chinese History.” In addition to detailing the mnemonic techniques involved in the invention of a Chinese nationality and the formation of mnemonic sediments, how the KMT government continuously modified its mnemonic engineering to counter challenges from its mnemonic rivals, the legacy of the official Chinese nationalism appearing in the following waves of nationbuilding in Taiwan, and the distinction between mnemonic revolution and mnemonic reform are also discussed. Furthermore, this dissertation suggests that its findings on mnemonic engineering can be applied to apprehend identity-remembering processes and how people conduct their boundary work mnemonically in various social fields.
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Sociology
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Nationalism--China--History--20th century
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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x, 218 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Hsin-Yi Yeh
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China--History--1949-
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Collective memory--China--History--20th century
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD doctoral
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Hsin-Yi
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2014-04-04 09:42:29
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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