Tag: Great leap forward

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

April 1, 2013 11:44 AM

Tibet and the CIA: The War We Cancelled

Jonathan Mirsky discusses books by CIA veteran John Kenneth Knaus and anthropologist Carole McGranahan on the history and

April 9, 2013 5:50 PM

Pinocchio with Chinese Characteristics

In this week’s Drawing the News, online cartoonists ring the alarm bell on new Internet regulations, corrupt officials go

January 4, 2013 2:42 PM

The Fight for the History of China’s Great Famine

The Guardian’s Tania Branigan interviews former Xinhua journalist Yang Jisheng, author of Tombstone: The Great Chin

January 3, 2013 6:49 PM

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