The People's Republic of Amnesia : Tiananmen Revisited

Author: Lim, Louisa (Foreign Correspondent, Foreign Correspondent, National Public Radio)

China

Published on 11 June 2015 by Oxford University Press Inc in the United States.

Paperback / softback | 288 pages, 28 colour images
209 x 141 x 20 | 294g

'One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989.' --The New York Times Book ReviewOn June 4, 1989, People's Liberation Army soldiers opened fire on unarmed civilians in Beijing, killing untold hundreds of people. A quarter-century later, this defining event remains buried in China's modern history, successfully expunged from collective memory. In The People's Republic of Amnesia, NPR correspondent Louisa Lim offers a much-needed response to the silence surrounding the events of June 4th, charting how deeply they affected China at the time and in the 25 years since.