| dc.description.abstract | “Red tourism” serves political and educational functions. It could take dark tourism sites as the spatial basis for
constructing the red experience, with patriotism cultivation as the result. Taking the Memorial Hall of the
Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders as a case study, this research integrates field survey data,
spatial luminosity, and user-generated content. It explores how the museum space unifies the spiritual produc-
tion of body (visual darkness), experience (dark and red experiences), and patriotism, illustrates how the official
discourse constructs the sites as a red experience, and demonstrates the process of transforming abstract history
into individual psychological experiences through bodily and personal narration. Furthermore, this research
constructs an approach from individual to collective emotion and the production mechanism of patriotism. The
study offers a new reference for tourism experience and provides a highly representative case and theoretical
analysis for “dark” and “red” tourism. | vi |
