Jie Li | Utopian Ruins

Published: June 29, 2021, 10:40 p.m.

For our inaugural podcast, Christian Sorace spoke with Jie Li about Utopian Ruins (2020), her recent book about the creation, preservation, and elision of memories from the Mao era. Among other things, they discuss how we might salvage the utopian impulses from their imposed forms; how to conceptualise memorial museums; and the power, sanctity, and violence of words and images.