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Sparks : China's underground historians and their battle for the future / Ian Johnson.

by Johnson, Ian, 1962 July 27- author.

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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Historians -- China.

Dissenters -- China.

Collective memory -- China.

China -- Historiography -- Political aspects.

9780197575505 (hardcover)

0197575501 (hardcover)

xv, 381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Preface -- I. The past. Introduction: The landscape of memory -- Memory: The Hexi Corridor -- The ditch -- Memory: Facing walls -- The sacrifice -- Memory: Bamboo slips -- Spark -- Memory: Etchings -- History as weapon -- Memory: How the Red Sun rose -- History as myth -- Memory: National Museum of China -- II. The present. The limits of amnesia -- Memory: A landlord's mansion -- The lost city -- Memory: Snow's visit -- The gateway -- Memory: Bloodlines -- Remembrance -- Memory: Tie Liu's cafe -- Lay down your butcher's knife -- Memory: Videoing China's village -- III. The future. Virus -- Memory: Soft burial -- Empire -- Memory: The lost warehouses -- The land of hermits -- Conclusion: Learning to walk underground -- Appendix: Exploring China's underground history.

"A vital account of how some of China's most important writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to challenge the Chinese Communist Party on its most sacred ground, its monopoly on history"-- Publisher.

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