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There are a lot of themes and points of interest in The World, which is about a Beijing theme park that contains all the world's greatest monuments and the employees who work there.
In Chongqing, monuments such as Chiang Kai-shek’s old villa at Huangshan have been restored, and the former leader himself is praised for his contributions to resisting the Japanese.
“I'll kill him if he builds a palace here," shouts Nikolai, in a reference to current Russian leaders' proclivity for erecting garish monuments to their personal splendor: Putin's Italianate palace on the Black sea, for example, allegedly cost more than $1 billion.
The sensible way to deal with monuments of the past would be to see them simply as artifacts of history.
It might be argued that monuments celebrating villains who lived within living memory and would still cause grief to surviving victims must be removed, and that anything older should be left alone.
Many people in the US South argue that Confederate monuments should be protected as mere reminders of the past, as part of a common “heritage.”
For many southerners, though by no means all, the Confederate cause and its monuments are still felt to be part of their collective identity.
Whereas the Bolshevik leaders tore down monuments to the czars, Putin has built massive monuments to Vladimir the Great in Moscow and Alexander III in Crimea.
Maoist dogma in China has been largely replaced by something called “patriotic education,” manifested in school textbooks, history museums, and an assortment of monuments.
By defending contested monuments and asserting that “both sides” were to blame in the Charlottesville tragedy, Trump is signaling his predominantly white support base that he will fight for their rights as a “threatened majority.”
There have been enough deaths, injuries, and damage (including to some of the most famous monuments in Paris).
Monuments and memorials can also serve an important purpose in providing an enduring reminder not only of the victims, but also of the state’s promise never to allow such atrocities to happen again.
It demands security guarantees for the Serbian minority and cultural monuments, as well as control of the borders with Albania and Macedonia to stop traffic in arms, drugs, and women, and to prevent the use of Kosovo by Albanian extremists.
As a result, his Red Guards destroyed ancient books, priceless antiques, monuments across the land, and nearly all Buddhist monasteries in Tibet.
An institution called English Heritage curates the past, from the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge to the old country houses that are celebrated in television costume dramas.
Progress will be achieved not by building monuments for politicians or holding summits, but by lowering the costs of doing business and raising the incomes of our people.
Some years ago, I proposed that every country should add to its monuments to heroism some monuments to its national shame.
Monuments to shame would not resolve the insoluble problems of humanity’s fate on Earth, but they might slow the advance of its dark side – in Eastern Europe, the Arab world, and everywhere else.
Putin’s Medieval DreamsATLANTA – While much of the world is busy dismantling monuments to oppressors, Russians are moving in the opposite direction, erecting statues to medieval warlords who were famous for their despotism.
No wonder, then, that monuments to Stalin, too, are multiplying in Russian cities.Neo-medievalism is rooted in nostalgia for a social order based on inequality, caste, and clan, enforced by terror.
Despite international calls to stop the attacks, the Al Qaeda-linked group managed to raze more than half of the fabled city’s ancient monuments, including several UNESCO World Heritage sites.
In the late 1950’s, countless Stalin monuments were demolished.
Monuments compose the body of a nation on display.
By looking at monuments, we feel how a nation-state affirms its continuity.
When revolutions disrupt this continuity, they wreak violence against monuments.
Sometimes, new monuments are erected.
Sometimes, old monuments return to their original spots.
Sometimes, monuments are in absentia, like professors on sabbatical.
The most arresting but unrecognized of all post-Soviet monuments to the Gulag is the 500 ruble banknote, issued in the late 1990's and widely used today.
Is this one of those monuments that has been erected not by artists but by critics, who produce meaning not through creation but through interpretation?
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