The theme of memory in the field of art and theparallel established with history lead us to distinguish two formsof the use of time: one which increases the standing of places and theother temporal combinations. This equivocation, which seems likely toincrease in the context of the de-Maoisation of Chinese society, isperceptible in a city such as Beijing, which seeks to culturalise itsplaces in order either to make them more liveable, or to invest themwith an aura, in Walter Benjamin`s meaning of the word, byconferring on them an artificial historic dignity, and thus playing ondifferent stratified temporalities. The example discussed by Wu Hung,the construction by the French architect Paul Andreu of the new BeijingOpera, a stone`s throw from Zhongnanhai and Tiananmen Square, is highlyevocative in this respect. A Review of Wu Hung`s book Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and The Creation of a Political Space. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005, 272 pp. In China perspectives,n°67, 2006, {En ligne},mis en ligne le 1 juin 2007.  Consulté le 27 février 2008.
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