Secret Historians Preserve the Past Amid State Amnesia
In effort to safeguard Party legitimacy, official history glosses over much of the brutality...
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China’s Brave Underground Journal
For the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson attends a meeting of the editors of Remembrance, an...
A Hero of the China Underground
In the New York Review of Books, Howard French reviews The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up by Liao Yiwu (full article available with subscription only): As a poet and chronicler of other people’s...
China’s political taboos feed market for unofficial books on scandal – AP
From The Associated Press, via The International Herald Tribune: Amid official silence over the graft case against Shanghai’s disgraced Communist Party chief, unlicensed tomes are stepping into the void with what they claim is the inside scoop on his downfall. Sold by sidewalk vendors or under-the-counter at legitimate bookstores, the paperbacks, with lurid, glossy covers […]
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