Document Type
Honors Project
Publication Date
6-2021
Abstract
This paper explores the contemporary historical narrative (since the early 2000s) of the Lushun Russo-Japanese Prison Museum in Dalian, China, as a case study through the dual lens of a site visit and historical source analysis of the museum exhibitions. The Lushun Russo-Japanese Prison Museum vividly reflects a construction of historical memory of modern China's humiliating and traumatic past, specifically of the Russo- Japanese War (1904-05) against the historical backdrop of the so-called "century of national humiliation" (1840-1945). To present a particular historical memory, the Chinese municipal government politically utilizes a victim-centric nationalist narrative in order to inculcate and fortify a nationalistic and patriotic consciousness in museum visitors.
Level of Honors
magna cum laude
Department
East Asian Studies
Advisor
Brigid Vance
Recommended Citation
Xie, Sheldon (Yaodong), "The Lushun Russo-Japanese Prison Museum: Nationalist Narrative Throughout Historical Memory of the “Humiliating Past” in Modern China" (2021). Lawrence University Honors Projects. 163.
https://lux.lawrence.edu/luhp/163
