03290nam 2200541 450 991081868860332120230803221255.00-19-934772-70-19-934771-9(CKB)2550000001272879(SSID)ssj0001183275(PQKBManifestationID)12510325(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001183275(PQKBWorkID)11185301(PQKB)10814385(MiAaPQ)EBC1675126(Au-PeEL)EBL1675126(CaPaEBR)ebr10858479(CaONFJC)MIL595003(OCoLC)877868294(EXLCZ)99255000000127287920140113h20142014 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe People's Republic of amnesia Tiananmen revisited /Louisa LimNew York, New York :Oxford University Press, USA,[2014]©20141 online resource (281 pages) mapsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-934770-0 1-306-63752-X Includes bibliographical references and index."Despite its emergence from backward isolation into a dynamic world economic power, a quarter-century after the People's Army crushed unarmed protestors--labeled anti-revolutionaries--in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, the defining event of China's modern history remains buried. Memory is dangerous in a country built to function on national amnesia. A single act of public remembrance might expose the frailty of the state's carefully constructed edifice of accepted history, one kept aloft by strict censorship, blatant falsehood, and willful forgetting. Though the consequences of Tiananmen Square are visible everywhere throughout China, what happened there has been consigned to silence. In The People's Republic of Amnesia, NPR's China correspondent Louisa Lim offers an insider's account of this seminal tragedy, revealing the enormous impact it had on China and the reverberations still felt today. Official hypocrisy and the government's obsession with maintaining stability and silence have deepened June 4th's impact on the nation's psyche. Lim interweaves portraits of eight individuals whose lives have been shaped by June 4--including the two women who started Tiananmen Mothers, one of the first and most prominent grassroots organizations outside the Chinese government's control; a student survivor involved in the protests; a soldier who took part in the suppression; and a high-ranking government administrator who played a role in ordering the tanks into the square. In the process she offers a textured, intimate, and haunting look at the national tragedy and an unhealed wound"--Provided by publisher.ChinaHistoryTiananmen Square Incident, 1989ChinaHistoryTiananmen Square Incident, 1989Influence951.05/8HIS008000HIS003000HIS037070bisacshLim Louisa1673094MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818688603321The People's Republic of amnesia4036961UNINA