The People's Republic of Amnesia

Such is the moral vulnerability of China’s Communist leaders that this simple act of memory is deemed a threat to stability. The power of the mothers’ bereavement is perceived as such a threat that their mourning needs to be corralled and monitored to protect the rest of the population from their grief. None of this has been lost on Zhang Xianling,

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Writing from his hiding place in the basement of a U.S. embassy building in Beijing, astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, one of China’s preeminent dissidents, baldly stated that the multiplicity of Tiananmen literature heralded “the failure of the ‘Technique of Forgetting History,’ which has been an important device of rule by the Chinese Communists.” Facts

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