The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited - Brossura

Lim, Louisa

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ISBN 10: 0190227915 ISBN 13: 9780190227913

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2015

Riassunto

"One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989." ―The New York Times Book Review

On June 4, 1989, People's Liberation Army soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians in Beijing, killing untold hundreds of people. A quarter-century later, this defining event remains buried in China's modern history, successfully expunged from collective memory. In The People's Republic of Amnesia, NPR correspondent Louisa Lim offers a much-needed response to the silence surrounding the events of June 4th, charting how deeply they affected China at the time and in the 25 years since.

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This is an impressive work of investigative history, and Lim makes unsettling discoveries (Independent, David Evans)

One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989. (The New York Times Book Review)

Lim presents a sequence of sensitive, skillfully drawn portraits of individuals whose lives were changed by 1989...These portraits show us how the party tightly constrains those who defy it, but they also depict determined resistance and even suggest an optimism among those most directly affected by the events of 1989...[This book] enhances our sense of the human costs of suppressing the past. (Wall Street Journal)

[Lim] offers a series of meticulously (and often daringly) reported portraits of participants, the events of that night and what has followed. (The Economist)

Lim tells her stories briskly and clearly. She moves nimbly between the individuals' narratives and broader reflections, interspersing both with short, poignant vignettes. (New York Review of Books)

Lim's outstanding book skilfully interweaves a wide range of interviews in China with an account of the protests in Beijing and ends with the fullest report to date of the crackdown in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. (Financial Times)

STUNNING and important...The People's Republic of Amnesia provides a powerful antidote to historical deception and a voice to those isolated by the truth. (Los Angeles Review of Books)

Louisa Lim peers deep into the conflicted soul of today's China. Twenty-five years after the bloody suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing, the government continues to deploy its technologies of forgetting (censorship of the media, falsification of history, and the amnesiac drug of shallow nationalism)

For a country that has long so valued its history and so often turned to it as a guide for the future, the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to erase actual history and replace it with distorted narratives warped by nationalism, has created a dangerous vacuum at the center of modern-day China. With her carefully researched and beautifully reported The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited, Louisa Lim helps not only restore several important missing pieces of Chinese posterity that were part of the demonstrations in 1989, but also reminds us that a country which loses the ability to remember its own past honestly risks becoming rootless and misguided. (Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Center on US-China Relations, Asia Society)

In The People's Republic of Amnesia veteran China correspondent Louisa Lim skillfully weaves the voices that 'clamor against the crime of silence' to recover for our collective memory the most pivotal moment in modern China's history. (Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking)

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An Economist Book of the Year, 2014

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• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0190227915
• ISBN 13: 9780190227913
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288