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- Title
Monumentality in Nanjing's Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park.
- Authors
MUSGROVE, CHARLES D.
- Abstract
This article explores the changing perceptions of monumentality on Nanjing's Purple Mountain, location of the Sun Yat-sen Memorial National Park, which was constructed during the early years of the Nationalist Era in China (1927-49). Monumentality refers to the characteristics that cause an object to be considered a monument. At Purple Mountain, these characteristics were neither uniform nor unchanging as the site developed. In essence, the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum combined older, symbolic Chinese conventions of monumental form with new emphases on the visual representation of power and public access to those representations, exemplifying ambiguous attitudes about the nature of government in the era of nation states. As a result, monumentality itself in Nanjing became, more so than previously, a medium that precluded uniform, prescribed meanings from predominating the site, as the mausoleum became a focal point of the struggle over symbolic construction in the Nationalist capital.
- Subjects
NANJING (Jiangsu Sheng, China); CHINA; SUN, Yat-sen, 1866-1925; CEMETERIES; MONUMENTS
- Publication
Southeast Review of Asian Studies, 2007, Vol 29, p1
- ISSN
1083-074X
- Publication type
Article