China's Youth: Ravenous for the West,With No Memory of the Past |
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| Authors: | XIAOLU GUO |
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| Affiliation: | 35, is one of the most widely read international Chinese writers, whose novels such as 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth and A Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers have been translated into many languages. She is also a filmmaker whose work has been shown at the Cannes and the Sundance film festivals. She spoke with Michael Skafidas, editor of the Greek edition of NPQ. |
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| Abstract: | Will China's authoritarian leaders succeed in building a future by erasing the past? Can the ideology of “nationalist consumerism” obliterate memory altogether? Will the Olympic applause drown out the weak and exiled witnesses of the Tiananmen crackdown? In this section we listen to a key Tiananmen student leader two decades on as well as check in with today's young elites in Beijing. A political leader from the reformist regime in 1989 calls for justice from house arrest and a young Chinese novelist wonders what kind of identity is possible without memory. |
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