Dans le cadre des cours « Histoire politique et sociale de la Chine moderne » et « Pouvoir et société dans la chine moderne et contemporaine » dispensés au Master Chine/Japon, un exposé par Agnes Schick-Chen (University of Vienna, Austria)

After the end of the Cultural Revolution, many unjust cases (yuan’an) of the Mao era were revised with the aim of reintegrating former victims into the processes of reform envisaged by the political leadership – but without addressing issues of individual suffering and accountability in a manner that would enable those affected to deal with the traumatizing experiences of the past.

In her presentation, Agnes Schick-Chen proposes to read filmic memories of redress and rehabilitation (pingfan) as reflections of and on this condition of (not) coming to terms with the past and will discuss some of the findings obtained from this approach. Drawing upon a small selection of independent documentaries and feature films we will trace three narratives of justice unachieved from the early reform era to China’s early twenty first century memory scape. Continuities and changes in narrative configurations will make us see these narratives’ pervasiveness and tell us about their embeddedness in the discursive and perceptive frames of the respective times of filmmaking. We will conclude that filmic memories of pingfan have shifted from implying the need for a new conzeptualization of justice, to negotiating the parameters of its implementation, but are still reverberating with unresolved questions of (past) in-/justice. 

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