History can hardly be neutral or factual because it depends on the historian’s, as well the people’s, perspective as to what kind of events and sources they combine to make history meaningful. Analysing historical analogies – as embedded in narratives and images of the past – enables us to understand how history and collective memory are managed and used for political purposes and to provide social orientation in time and space.
To rethink theories of history, iconology and collective memory, the authors of this volume discuss a variety of cases from Hong Kong, China and Europe.
Andreas Leutzsch is a historian and social scientist who holds a PhD from Bielefeld University. He has worked as Researcher and (Visiting) Professor in China, Hong Kong, Germany, Russia and Uzbekistan. His research in global studies and theory of history was awarded the A.SK Social Science Award Fellowship by the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) in 2007.