| The Country of Memory |
| CONTENTS |
| Illustrations |
| Foreword |
| Acknowledgments |
 | INTRODUCTION |
| • | READING THE FUTURE INTO THE PAST |
| • | UTOPIA AND ITS AFTERMATH |
| • | GEOGRAPHIES OF MEMORY |
| • | OWNING AND DISOWNING THE PAST |
| • | STYLISTICS OF COMMEMORATION |
| • | THE ESSAYS |
| • | NOTES |
| 1. CONSTRUCTING MEMORY |
| 1. Reading Revolutionary Prison Memoirs |
| • | THE LITERATURE OF CONFINEMENT IN THE CLASSICAL TRADITION |
| • | FRENCH ROMANTICISM AND THE CULT OF INCARCERATION |
| • | REVOLUTIONARY SCHOOLS AND HEROICPRISONERS |
| • | DISTORTIONS AND ELISIONS |
| • | MORALE-BUILDING AND PROLETARIANIZATION |
| • | CONCLUSION |
| • | NOTES |
| 2. “The Fatherland Remembers Your Sacrifice” |
| • | THE “JUST CAUSE” OF NATIONAL LIBERATION |
| • | ARTICULATING THE NEW VIRTUE |
| • | SUPPORTING THE WAR EFFORT |
| • | THE DILEMMAS OF WAR DEATH |
| • | FAMILY COMMEMORATION OF WAR DEAD |
| • | THE COMMEMORATIVE PROJECT TODAY |
| • | CONCLUSION |
| • | NOTES |
| 3. Museum-Shrine |
| • | NOTES |
| 2. REPACKAGING THE PAST |
| 4. Framing the National Spirit |
| • | THE CREATION OF A “NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY PAINTING” TRADITION |
| • | REDEFINING “NATIONAL CHARACTER” IN THE 1990s |
| • | TRADITION AND MODERNISM |
| • | CONCLUSION |
| • | NOTES |
| 5. The Past without the Pain |
| • | APPEALING TO TOURISTS |
| • | THE FACE OF THE “NEW VIETNAM”: AMENITIES AND ATTRACTIONS |
| • | PACKAGING VIETNAM: THE NARRATIVE OF VIETNAM TRAVEL LITERATURE |
| • | CONCLUSION: RECOLONIZING THE PAST |
| • | NOTES |
| 3. GENDERED MEMORY |
| 6. Faces of Remembrance and Forgetting |
| • | FEMALE CONSTANCY AND MALE ABSENCE |
| • | MOTHERS AND SOLDIERS |
| • | KEEPERS OF MEMORY |
| • | MANAGING PEACE |
| • | WOMEN IN THE MUSEUM |
| • | CONSUMING OBLIVION |
| • | NOTES |
| 7. Contests of Memory |
| • | WHO RIGHTFULLY POSSESSES THE MEMORY OF FALLEN SOLDIERS? |
| • | WHOSE WARTIME SACRIFICES DESERVE COMMEMORATION? |
| • | WHAT ARE THE REAL LEGACIES OF THE WAR? |
| • | NOTES |
| AFTERWORD |
| • | NOTES |
| Glossary |
| Bibliography |
| Contributors |
| Index |
