Counter-History in China: Challenging the Headline Narratives with Ian Johnson (Concil of Foreign Relations)

Newspaper headlines describe a China that is uniformly bleak: a slowing economy, tensions with the West, and a surveillance state that seems to have crushed all opposing voices. But in his new book Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future (2023), Ian Johnson presents a more nuanced picture of Xi Jinping's China, one where a vibrant movement of underground filmmakers, magazine publishers, and authors challenge the Communist Party on its most important source of legitimacy: its control of history. Join us as Johnson presents his book and introduces us to China's counter-history movement, which echoes struggles in our own countries for a more equitable and just accounting of the past.FREE and OPEN to the public. Please register at https://bostonu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_88n15ENFAc8ITGK?Q_CHL=qr

When 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm on Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Location Kilachand Honors College, Common Room (1st floor), 91 Bay State Road, Boston MA