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Sparks - China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future (Hardcover)
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Sparks - China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future (Hardcover)
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'An indelible feat of reporting and an urgent read ... It's a
privilege to read books like these' Te-Ping Chen, author of Land of
Big Numbers 'A powerful reminder of the ways in which China's
future depends on who controls the past' Peter Hessler A
documentary filmmaker who spent years uncovering a Mao-era death
camp; an independent journalist who gave voice to the millions who
suffered through Covid; a magazine publisher who dodges the secret
police: these are some of the people who make up Sparks: China's
Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future, a vital
account of how some of China's most important writers, filmmakers,
and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to challenge
the Chinese Communist Party on its most sacred ground - its
monopoly on history. In traditional China, dynasties rewrote
history to justify their rule by proving that their predecessors
were unworthy of holding power. Marxism gave this a modern gloss,
describing history as an unstoppable force heading toward
Communism's triumph. The Chinese Communist Party builds on these
ideas to whitewash its misdeeds and justify its rule. But in recent
years, critical thinkers from across the land have begun to
challenge this state-led disremembering. Using digital technologies
to bypass China's legendary surveillance state, their samizdat
journals, guerilla media posts, and underground films document a
pattern of disasters: from past famines and purges to the ethnic
clashes and virus outbreaks of the present. Based on years of
research in Xi Jinping's China, Sparks challenges stereotypes of a
China where the state has quashed all free thought, revealing
instead a country engaged in one of humanity's great struggles of
memory against forgetting - a battle that will shape the China that
emerges in the mid-21st century.
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