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Record W4320729175 · doi:10.1177/13591835221135404

Tourists of their own past: Aural palimpsests from the Mao era

2023· article· en· W4320729175 on OpenAlex
Shelley Zhang

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Material Culture · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHong Kong and Taiwan Politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaSchool of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
KeywordsPoliticsNegotiationAestheticsEthnographyTourismMeaning (existential)SociologyChinaGovernment (linguistics)HistoryCultural revolutionVisual artsMedia studiesAnthropologySocial scienceLawArtPolitical sciencePsychologyLinguisticsArchaeology

Abstract

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This article explores how individuals in contemporary China use songs to both express and protect their memories of the Cultural Revolution and Mao era. As individuals who experienced the Cultural Revolution find ways to voice their recollections of the past, they casually listen to and perform songs from the Mao era, pursue domestic tourism, and engage with other material culture from that time. Their actions index individuals’ complicated nostalgias and continual negotiations with their political presents. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in the Hunan province, this article analyzes song objects as ‘aural palimpsests’ that allow individuals to gesture towards their political presents without criticizing the government or articulating traumatic memories. Aural palimpsests are performed and heard in architectural spaces that shape how music from different eras and genres become layered atop one another to create new social meaning in a contemporary China that is still grappling with its recent history.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.253
Threshold uncertainty score0.507

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.291
Teacher spread0.271 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it