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Using history to challenge Communist Party rule.

Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future describes how some of China's best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on its most hallowed ground: its control of history.

The past is a battleground in many countries, but in China it is crucial to political power. 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 glorify its rule. Indeed, one of Xi Jinping's signature policies is the control of history, which he equates with the party's survival.

But in recent years, a network of independent writers, artists, and filmmakers have begun challenging 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 regular pattern of disasters: from famines and purges of years past to ethnic clashes and virus outbreaks of the present--powerful and inspiring accounts that have underpinned recent protests in China against Xi Jinping's strongman rule.

Based on years of first-hand 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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A financial times economist new yorker and new statesman book of the year 2023 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 control Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

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brought to you by penguin in china today a nationwide movement emerges defying crackdowns and censorship to challenge the communist party on its most hallowed ground its control of history in traditional china dynasties rewrote history to justify their rule by proving that their predecessors w Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 26 september 2023

Aantal pagina's: 400

Hoofdauteur: Ian Johnson

Hoofduitgeverij: Oup India

Product breedte: 165 mm

Product hoogte: 31 mm

Product lengte: 238 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 165 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 31 mm

Verpakking lengte: 238 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 748 g

EAN: 9780197575505

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