This paper explores how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has shaped revolutionary memories in the People's Republic of China (PRC) through the use of a dynamic unity of multimedia commemoration techniques including both the built environment as well as education and mass media. As early as 1951, right after the establishment of the nation, the Ministry of Culture and Ministry of the Interior requested the construction of revolutionary memorials and preservation of revolutionary heritage. In 1960, the State Council announced the first 33 revolutionary heritage and commemoration sites. The 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident ignited the launch of the "Patriotic Education Campaign" in 1991. Compared to the previous communist campaigns, it used a much more practical and sophisticated way of conveying the ideas and agenda of the Communist Party. Later in 2005, the General Office of the CCP and the State Council of the PRC initiated the development of Red Tourism. Since the 90s, hundreds of sites have been designated as Patriotic Education Bases and Red Tourism has been booming. This paper examines revolutionary memory by looking at the Post-Tiananmen Square projects in China: the "Patriotic Education Campaign" and its products -- "Patriotic Education Bases" and "Red Tourism." It studies the "Monument to the People's Heroes" which appeared on the original List of Patriotic Education Bases and was built on the contested site of Tiananmen Square. It explores how the transformation of meaning and reception of these monuments, along with other commemorative techniques, shape collective memory and the narrative of history.
