Laura Pozzi is an historian of modern Chinese history. She interested in the entanglements between history, memory, and politics in the People’s Republic of China. She analysis the role of visual culture and museums in the shaping of the Chinese Communist Party’s memory politics. Recently she has published “Local Museum, National History: Curating Shanghai’s History in the Context of a Changing China (1994–2018)” (The International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2020), a study of the reframing of colonial heritage in the Shanghai History Museum from historical perspective.