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Tiananmen Square: Public Memory, Emblem, Monument
• How to change a feudal monument into a monument for the
people?
• What defines the space of the square? Consider Forbidden City,
Gate, Square
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Wang Jingsong. Taking a
Picture in Front of Tiananmen.
1990. Oil on canvas.
Sun Zixi (b. 1929)
In Front of Tiananmen
1964
Oil on Canvas
155 x 285 cm
Chinese National Art Gallery,
Beijing
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The Forbidden City
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Great China Amusement Park, Beijing (questions of scale and ownership)
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Tiananmen “Gate of Heavenly Peace” (January 2006)
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Transforming the meaning of the Gate: State emblem
featuring the Gate of Heavenly Peace
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Chan
National Day Parade on Chang’an Avenue (which passes in front
of the Gate)
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The Square today, viewed from the east corner of the Forbidden
City: Monument to the People’s Heroes (cenotaph at center);
Chairman Mao Mausoleum (south); Qianmen Gate (further south); Great
Hall Of the People (west, behind the cenotaph in this photograph); to the
east, next to the bus park in the foreground but not in the photograph, is
the Museum of Revolutionary History
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Monument to the People’s
Heroes (1959), compare with
Imperial stele
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Monument to the People’s
Heroes, north side facing
Tiananmen Gate “Long
Live the Victory of Chairman
Mao’s Thought” inscribed
In Premier Zhou Enlai’s
calligraphy
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Monument, east side facing Museum of Revolution and History
(historical progression begins on east side and moves clockwise,
bas relief of Opium Wars on R; Taiping Rebellion on L)
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Detail Monument, east side: 19th-century Opium Wars
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Museum of History and Revolution (east side of square)
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The Museum of the Chinese Revolution and History, by
Zhang Kaiji, 1959
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Measuring out time in front of the Museum of History and the
Revolution: Countdown to the 2008 Olympics… (January 2006)
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An earlier countdown to the return of Hong Kong to the
PRC (July 1, 2007)
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Monument, south side facing Mausoleum (L to R:
May 30th Movement, May 4th Movement, Wuchang Uprising)
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Detail Monument, south side: May 4th Movement (students
protest the Treaty of Versailles)
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Chairman Mao Mausoleum, 1977
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Planning the Mao Zedong Mausoleum
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Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. (Henry Bacon, 1915)
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Ye Yushan, Zhang Songhe, Wang Keqing, Cao Chunsheng, Bai Lansheng,
Sun Jiabin; tapestry behind statue by Huang Yongyu. Statue of Chairman
Mao in North Hall of Mausoleum. (marble, 1978).
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Huang Yongyu. Statue of Chairman Mao in North
Hall of Mausoleum. (marble, 1978); Daniel Chester
French’s sculpture of Abraham Lincoln (1922)
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Memorial Hall Group Sculptures. Collaborative work of 108 artists.
Cast concrete. 1978.
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Monument, west side facing Great Hall of the People
(Nanchang Uprising 1927 on R, War Against Japan 1937-45
on L)
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The Great Hall of the People, by Zhang Bo, 1959
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Monument, north side facing Tiananmen (Liberation of
Nanjing 1949)
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The Museum of the Chinese Revolution and History, by
Zhang Kaiji, 1959
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Beijing Railway Station by Yang Tingbao, 1958-59
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The Great Hall of the People, by Zhang Bo, 1959
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