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Contemporary Memory Research on the Cultural and Philosophical Imagery of Chinese Overseas Chinese Banking and Telecommunications from the Perspective of Digital Humanities

Author(s)

Kailin Huang*, Hewen Chen

Affiliation(s)

School of Creative Design, Dongguan City University, Dongguan, Guangdong, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

Reflecting on the contemporary value of Chinese Overseas Chinese Silver Letters from the perspective of cultural philosophy and paying attention to the paper carrier as an important part of the memory heritage culture in modern civilization, how to adapt to the new historical situation and obtain its own existential value and status in the new cultural ecological environment is a question worth thinking about. Overseas Chinese silver letters refer to the remittance certificates with family letters or simple attachments sent back to China by overseas Chinese through private channels and later financial and postal institutions since the Qing Dynasty until the end of the 1970s, and they are also the treasures of memory formed in the process of transferring the emotions between overseas Chinese and their families in China. The role of Chinese overseas Chinese silver letters in the construction of contemporary social memory is reflected in two aspects: firstly, originality, the description of what one sees and hears and the development of the letter, which is placed in the contemporary historical process, records the history of the development of the overseas Chinese and the "collective memory" of the overseas Chinese compatriots passed down from generation to generation. Secondly, completeness. Overseas Chinese silver letters have gone through several historical periods, including the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, reflecting the changes of the times, the evolution of society and the development of the economy in a relatively systematic and complete manner. Therefore, Chinese Overseas Chinese Silver Letters embody multiple meanings of emotions and characteristics of the times, and have important research value. This paper intends to use the silver letter archives of the relevant museums in Guangdong Province, China, as the sample source, to analyze the representational content of the memory of Chinese Overseas Chinese Silver Letters with the help of the content analysis method, to take "from form to concept" as the logical main line, to take the living deconstruction and value identity of contemporary collective memory construction as the research angle, and to analyze the memory of Chinese Overseas Chinese Silver Letters through the change of their cultural and artistic modes to adapt to modernization and the change of their cultural and artistic modes to adapt to modernizatin. Through the change of China Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation's own culture and art mode to adapt to the development of modernization, it makes its own contribution to human civilization in the confrontation with the rational culture mode.

Keywords

Philosophy of Culture; Collective memory; Overseas Chinese Silver Letter; Content Analysis Approach

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