The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited

"One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989." --The New York Times Book Review

On 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.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• ISBN: 9780190227913
• Number of pages: 288
• Weight: 318g
• Dimensions: 208 x 137 x 23 mm