LEADER 03290nam 2200541 450 001 9910818688603321 005 20230803221255.0 010 $a0-19-934772-7 010 $a0-19-934771-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000001272879 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001183275 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12510325 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001183275 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11185301 035 $a(PQKB)10814385 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1675126 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1675126 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10858479 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL595003 035 $a(OCoLC)877868294 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001272879 100 $a20140113h20142014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe People's Republic of amnesia $eTiananmen revisited /$fLouisa Lim 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cOxford University Press, USA,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (281 pages) $cmaps 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-934770-0 311 $a1-306-63752-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"Despite its emergence from backward isolation into a dynamic world economic power, a quarter-century after the People's Army crushed unarmed protestors--labeled anti-revolutionaries--in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, the defining event of China's modern history remains buried. Memory is dangerous in a country built to function on national amnesia. A single act of public remembrance might expose the frailty of the state's carefully constructed edifice of accepted history, one kept aloft by strict censorship, blatant falsehood, and willful forgetting. Though the consequences of Tiananmen Square are visible everywhere throughout China, what happened there has been consigned to silence. In The People's Republic of Amnesia, NPR's China correspondent Louisa Lim offers an insider's account of this seminal tragedy, revealing the enormous impact it had on China and the reverberations still felt today. Official hypocrisy and the government's obsession with maintaining stability and silence have deepened June 4th's impact on the nation's psyche. Lim interweaves portraits of eight individuals whose lives have been shaped by June 4--including the two women who started Tiananmen Mothers, one of the first and most prominent grassroots organizations outside the Chinese government's control; a student survivor involved in the protests; a soldier who took part in the suppression; and a high-ranking government administrator who played a role in ordering the tanks into the square. In the process she offers a textured, intimate, and haunting look at the national tragedy and an unhealed wound"--$cProvided by publisher. 607 $aChina$xHistory$yTiananmen Square Incident, 1989 607 $aChina$xHistory$yTiananmen Square Incident, 1989$xInfluence 676 $a951.05/8 686 $aHIS008000$aHIS003000$aHIS037070$2bisacsh 700 $aLim$b Louisa$01673094 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818688603321 996 $aThe People's Republic of amnesia$94036961 997 $aUNINA