Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons
Historical parallels, analogies, anachronisms and metaphors to the past play a crucial role in political speeches, historical narratives, iconography, movies and newspapers on a daily basis. They frame, articulate and represent a specific understanding of history and can be used not only to construct but also to rethink historical continuity. Almost-forgotten or sleeping history can be revived to legitimize an imagined future in a political discourse today.
History can hardly be neutral or factual because it depends on the historians, as well the peoples, perspective as to what kind of events and sources they combine to make history meaningful. Analysing historical analogies as embedded in narratives and images of the past enables us to understand how history and collective memory are managed and used for political purposes and to provide social orientation in time and space.
To rethink theories of history, iconology and collective memory, the authors of this volume discuss a variety of cases from Hong Kong, China and Europe.
Andreas Leutzsch is a historian and social scientist who holds a PhD from Bielefeld University. He has worked as Researcher and (Visiting) Professor in China, Hong Kong, Germany, Russia and Uzbekistan. His research in global studies and theory of history was awarded the A.SK Social Science Award Fellowship by the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) in 2007.
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27 Historical Parallels, Commemoration and Icons
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Title: Historical parallels, commemoration and icons / Edited by Andreas Leutzsch.
Description: First edition. | London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. | Series: Routledge approaches to history; 26 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018051772| ISBN 9781138579484 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429507991 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Historiography--Political aspects. | Political oratory.
Classification: LCC D13 .H5513 2019 | DDC 907.2--dc23
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Peter Burke MA (Oxford University, Cambridge University), Hon. PhD (Brussels, Bucharest, Copenhagen, Lund and Zurich universities) is Professor Emeritus of Cultural History and Fellow of Emmanuel College at Cambridge University; Fellow of the British Academy and Royal Historical Society; and Member of the Academia Europaea.
C. K. Martin Chung PhD (The University of Hong Kong, 2014) is Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Antoon De Baets PhD (University of Ghent, 1988) is Professor of History, Ethics and Human Rights at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is Coordinator of the Network of Concerned Historians.
Javier Fernndez-Sebastin PhD (Complutense University Madrid, 1989) is Chair Professor of History of Political Thought at the Universidad del Pas Vasco (Bilbao) and Principal Investigator of the Research Group on Intellectual History of Modern Politics and Iberconceptos.
Andreas Leutzsch Dr Phil. (Bielefeld University, 2007) previously Lecturer in History (Bielefeld University); A.SK Social Science Award Fellow, WZB; DAAD Visiting Associate Professor (The University of Hong Kong) is Visiting Professor DAAD CGES Bielefeld University/State University Saint Petersburg.
Roland Vogt PhD (University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2007) is Assistant Professor in European Studies at the University of Hong Kong.
Barbara von der Lhe Dr Phil. habil. (Technical University Berlin, 1997) is Professor in Media Studies at the Technical University Berlin.
I would like to thank the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for sponsoring a Visiting Associate Professorship at the Hong Kong University (HKU, 20122017) that enabled me to work, among others, on this project. The DAADs Winter and Summer Schools, which Ms Friederike Schomacker and her team organized, were also very useful for broadening my academic horizon in e.g. China and Media Studies. Kendall Johnson as Head of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (HKU), Consul Andreas Otto from the German Consulate General Hong Kong and Gray Kochhar-Lindgren from the Common Core at HKU generously supported an international conference that enabled me to invite some of the contributors to present their papers at HKU; the American Historical Association (AHA) and the European Network in Universal and Global History accepted further panels, which I organized to discuss contributions to this volume. In particular, I would like to thank Volker Berghahn (Columbia University) for chairing the panel of the AHA Annual Meeting in 2017. Furthermore, I would like to thank Joshua Derman and the Division of Humanities for hosting a talk on my paper at the HKUST, Tim Gruenewald (HKU) for proofreading the book proposal and Paul Urbanski (HKU) for supporting my research at large. In general, I have to thank my former colleagues and supervisors particularly Horst Walter Blanke and Werner Abelshauser from Bielefeld University for encouraging me to do multidisciplinary and comparative research in and beyond Bielefelds tradition in social history. Last but not least, I have to thank Routledge, Sarah Willis, Megan Symons, Dana Moss and the contributors to this volume for supporting the publication of this book in a most professional way.
