A Civil Society Emerges From the Earthquake Rubble |
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| Authors: | GUOBIN YANG |
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| Affiliation: | Associate professor at Barnard College and a visiting senior research fellow at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore. He is the author of a forthcoming book, The Power of the Internet: Chinese Citizen Activism Online. This first appeared on YaleGlobal Online. |
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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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