Counter-Histories in China

March 19, 2024: Counter-Histories in China
Newspaper headlines describe a China that is uniformly bleak: a slowing economy, tensions with the West, and a surveillance state that seems to have crushed all opposing voices. But in his new book, "Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future," Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ian Johnson presents a more nuanced picture of Xi Jinping's China, one where a vibrant movement of underground filmmakers, magazine publishers and authors challenge the Communist Party on its most important source of legitimacy: its control of history. In this book talk, Ian Johnson introduces us to China's counter-history movement, which echoes struggles in many societies for a more equitable and just accounting of the past.
This public lecture is organized by the 21st Century China Center (21CCC) at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. For more information about this and other 21CCC events, please visit china.ucsd.edu/.

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At least the CCP has performance to show, and if a party is doing a good job it should stay.

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very shallow view. the structire of government from top to bottom should be presented as a model of governing a large population. the way candiate for the cpc. ots sellection pf members 90 million and ability to self reflect amd change and deals with corruption is what makes the system successful. this is the mistake many idiologs make by believing their ideas are superior.