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Yan Lianke: On China’s State-Sponsored Amnesia

In the New York Times, writer Yan Lianke discusses the historical amnesia that is afflicting China’s young generation, many of whom are not familiar with major events in China’s recent past, including the famine during the Great Leap Forward and the military crackdown in Beijing on June 4th, 1989. He writes: Have today’s 20- and 30-year-olds become the amnesic generation? Who has made t

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