Comments on: China reconstructs

By: Frog in a Well - The China History Group Blog

Frog in a Well - The China History Group Blog — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:09:00 +0000

[...] one is more recent and a bit better done than some of the others. As I have discussed before, many Chinese sights are much more obviously reconstructed than would be accepted in the West. [...]

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:18:01 +0000

My family lives in Australia and is descended from the son of a Ching official who ran away from the threat od punishment in China and sailed on a British ship to Australia in 1862. His father was executed on the orders of Cixi. He was of Manchu/Mongol family and his father was probably Su Shun,
I note references on this website of relics from Su Shun’s tomb, and would like to identify it. We know he was beheaded at the execution grouind in Beijing, but like most high officials his body may have been claimed by his family and buried with honour. We often visit China and Mongolia and would love to know.

By: Frog in a Well - The China History Group Blog

Frog in a Well - The China History Group Blog — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:44:11 +0000

[...] am somewhat fond of public history despite knowing nothing about it. So, one of the things I am assigning to my Modern China students [...]

By: Frog in a Well - The China History Group Blog

Frog in a Well - The China History Group Blog — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:05:19 +0000

[...] posted a while back on how the Chinese are more aggressive in re-building historical sites than one would expect in the [...]

By: Carl von Linné is 300 years old and here are his roots « Testimony of the spade

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:14:56 +0000

[...] Therefore this should be seen as a form of museum or just a nice holiday scenic spot. On the blog Frog in a well there is a post on reconstructions, rebuilding and authenticity in China that is a bit interesting [...]

By: Autenticitet, återuppbyggande och rekonstruktioner. « Yangshao projektet

Autenticitet, återuppbyggande och rekonstruktioner. « Yangshao projektet — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:45:48 +0000

[...] Frog in a well kan man läsa ett intressant inlägg om bland annat skillnader i synen på autenticitet och på [...]

By: Alan Baumler

Alan Baumler — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:40:06 +0000

Yes, I sort of like the Chinese method myself. Chinese museums, for instance, are much more likely to include copies of famous artifacts or pictures of them to help tell the story. Much better than the Western method of telling the proles they should go to Florence and see the Authentic piece.

By: Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:50:18 +0000

Nice pictures and discussion.

To some extent the Chinese method seems more likely to provide some continuity than the American “bulldoze or leave” method in which very little restorative work or recreation is considered acceptable. By Chinese standards, “historic Williamsburg” probably qualifies as a legitimate historical site….

The Japanese, on the other hand, tend to move whole buildings into nice convenient theme parks like Meiji-mura….