Abstract
Opened in 2015, the Sihang Warehouse Memorial Museum is an architectural relic of the fierce and famous “Defense of Sihang Warehouse,” which took place in the 1937 Battle of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Regarding the warehouse as a national war icon lost and found, I examine the transformations of the symbolic meanings of the warehouse per se and how it has been represented visually in photography and film in relation to the vicissitudes of history. The chapter shows how the meaning of commemorative space for modern and contemporary Chinese war memory has been constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed visually and physically.
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