Commemorating and burying dead comrades: Revolutionary martyrs’ cemeteries in China and North Korea

The paper examines the state sponsored, often vast cemeteries built to bury or commemorate the fallen ‘martyrs’ during revolutionary or civil wars in two Communist countries, China and North Korea. The legitimization of governments has always been an important issue with such burial sites and recent...

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Main Author: Gwendolyn Leick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2015-12-01
Series:In_Bo
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Online Access:http://in_bo.unibo.it/article/view/6085