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The Transcultural Memoryscape of Tiananmen
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This paper examines the interface between the physical space and the collective memory of Tiananmen by encompassing memory studies, international relations, media and cultural studies. By employing the spatial term of “scape,” I stress the sociocultural process of producing memory and the dialectical relationship between media and space. Rather than repeating the forgetting/remembering or silencing/voicing dyad, it focuses on the “moment” of intense memory production in the aftermath of the 1989 crackdown. The post-Tiananmen phase was also the post-Cold War era and the transnational mapping of collective memories of Tiananmen shows the shared memory frame of purity and mnemonic collaboration of international communities. This study surveys movies and research articles on Tiananmen both from China, including Hong Kong, and North America, and examines The People’s Daily in order to see how the memoryscape of Tiananmen was formed. The protesters’ image was created in association with blood stains and rubbish in the aftermath of Tiananmen in China. The collective memory of Tiananmen was sanitised and sacralised to achieve an all-embracing totality.