TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lim,Louisa
TI  - The People's Republic of amnesia: Tiananmen revisited 
SN  - 9780199347704 (hardback : acidfree paper)
AV  - DS779.32 .L55 2014
U1  - 951.05/8 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / China
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / General
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989
KW  - Influence
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-236) and index
N2  - "Despite its emergence from backward isolation into a dynamic world economic power, a  quarter-century after the People's Army crushed unarmed protestors--labeled anti-revolutionaries--in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, the defining event of China's modern history remains buried. Memory is dangerous in a country built to function on national amnesia.  A single act of public remembrance might expose the frailty of the state's carefully constructed edifice of accepted history, one kept aloft by strict censorship, blatant falsehood, and willful forgetting.  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. Official hypocrisy and the government's obsession with maintaining stability and silence have deepened June 4th's impact on the nation's psyche. Lim interweaves portraits of eight individuals whose lives have been shaped by June 4--including the two women who started Tiananmen Mothers, one of the first and most prominent grassroots organizations outside the Chinese government's control; a student survivor involved in the protests; a soldier who took part in the suppression; and a high-ranking government administrator who played a role in ordering the tanks into the square. In the process she offers a textured, intimate, and haunting look at the national tragedy and an unhealed wound"--
ER  -