TY - BOOK ID - 118024623 TI - Governing the Dead PY - 2021 SN - 9781501756511 1501756524 1501756508 1501756516 9781501756528 9781501756504 PB - Ithaca, NY DB - UniCat KW - Memorialization KW - War cemeteries KW - War memorials KW - Nationalism and collective memory KW - Collective memory and nationalism KW - Collective memory KW - War monuments KW - Art and war KW - Memorials KW - Monuments KW - Military parks KW - Soldiers' monuments KW - Military cemeteries KW - Cemeteries KW - Memorialisation KW - Political aspects KW - History KW - Chinese war commemoration, China during World War II, military compensation for Chinese soldiers, martyrs in modern China, people’s war in China, war memorials in China. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118024623 AB - In 'Governing the Dead', Linh D. Vu explains how the Chinese Nationalist regime consolidated control by honoring its millions of war dead, allowing China to emerge rapidly from the wreckage of the first half of the twentieth century to become a powerful state, supported by strong nationalistic sentiment and institutional infrastructure. The fall of the empire, internecine conflicts, foreign invasion, and war-related disasters claimed twenty to thirty million Chinese lives. Vu draws on government records, newspapers, and petition letters from mourning families to analyze how the Nationalist regime's commemoration of the dead and compensation of the bereaved actually fortified its central authority. By enshrining the victims of violence as national ancestors, the Republic of China connected citizenship to the idea of the nation, promoting loyalty to the 'imagined community.' ER -