Ebook {Epub PDF} The Peoples Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited by Louisa Lim

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. The government wants its people to forget what has happened, and unfortunately, it is quite successful with its strategy – China, finally, has become the “People’s Republic of Amnesia”, as Louisa Lim states in the title of her book. „Memory is dangerous in a country that was built to Cited by:  · The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited. The USC U.S.-China Institute presents a book talk by Louisa Lim, an award-winning journalist who has reported from China for a decade. The People's Republic of Amnesia discusses how the events of June 4th changed China, and how China changed the events of June 4th by rewriting its own history.

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Author/Creator: Lim, Louisa, author. Publication: New York, New York: Oxford University Press, USA, [] Format/Description: Book 1 online resource ( pages. With her carefully researched and beautifully reported The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited, Louisa Lim helps not only restore several important missing pieces of Chinese posterity that were part of the demonstrations in , but also reminds us that a country which loses the ability to remember its own past honestly risks becoming rootless and misguided." —Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Center on US-China Relations, Asia Society. 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.