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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Bologna
2015-12-01
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| Series: | In_Bo |
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| Online Access: | http://in_bo.unibo.it/article/view/6085 |
| Summary: | 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 renovations of existing, as well as new constructions, in both countries show the continuing relevance of the policy. Of interest is also the way in which architectural, sculptural and landscape symbolization were employed to construct imagery that sometimes defies intended ideological messages. |
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| ISSN: | 2036-1602 |