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Sparks China's underground historians and their battle for the future

"The tectonic plates that form China have left it a checkerboard of mountains and rivers and memories. From the south, the Indian plate pushes up into the Eurasian, creating the Himalayas and the vast Tibetan plateau that almost cuts the country off from the rest of the continent. Rippling outward a...

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Main Author: Johnson, Ian, 1962 July 27- (Author)
Corporate Author: Council on Foreign Relations
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Historians > China.
Dissenters > China.
Collective memory > China.
China > Historiography > Political aspects.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • I. The past. Introduction: The landscape of memory
  • Memory: The hexi corridor
  • The ditch
  • Memory: Facing walls
  • The sacrifice
  • Memory: Bamboo slips
  • Spark
  • Memory: Etchings
  • History as weapon
  • Memory: How the red sun rose
  • History as myth
  • Memory: National Museum of China
  • II. The present. The limits of amnesia
  • Memory: A landlord's mansion
  • The lost city
  • Memory: Snow's visit
  • The gateway
  • Memory: Bloodlines
  • Remembrance
  • Memory: Tie Liu's cafe
  • Lay down your butcher's knife
  • Memory: Videoing China's village
  • III. The future. Virus
  • Memory: Soft burial
  • Empire
  • Memory: the lost warehouses
  • The land of hermits
  • Conclusion: Learning to walk underground
  • Appendix: Exploring China's underground history.

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