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Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
Ian JohnsonSparks: China's Underground Historians & their Battle for the Future describes how some of China's best-known writers, filmmakers, & artists have overcome crackdowns & censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on its most hallowed ground: its control of history.
The past is a battleground in many countries, but in China it is crucial to political power. In traditional China, dynasties rewrote history to justify their rule by proving that their predecessors were unworthy of holding power. Marxism gave this a modern gloss, describing history as an unstoppable force heading toward Communism's triumph. The Chinese Communist Party builds on these ideas to whitewash its misdeeds & glorify its rule. Indeed, one of Xi Jinping's signature policies is the control of history, which he equates with the party's survival.
But in recent years, a network of independent writers, artists, & filmmakers have begun challenging this state-led disremembering. Using digital technologies to bypass China's legendary surveillance state, their samizdat journals, guerilla media posts, & underground films document a regular pattern of disasters: from famines & purges of years past to ethnic clashes & virus outbreaks of the present--powerful & inspiring accounts that have underpinned recent protests in China against Xi Jinping's strongman rule.
Based on years of first-hand research in Xi Jinping's China, Sparks challenges stereotypes of a China where the state has quashed all free thought, revealing instead a country engaged in one of humanity's great struggles of memory against forgetting―a battle that will shape the China that emerges in the mid-21st century.
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Ian Johnson is the author of other books that also focus on the intersection of politics & civil society, including The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao.
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