Louisa Lim, a correspondent for America’s National Public Radio, writes
in her new book, “The People’s Republic of Amnesia”, that China’s
modern history “pivots on that night” of bloodshed in 1989.
Yet a new generation of young Chinese has since grown up that knows little
of what happened, and appears not to care. Ms Lim showed students at
leading Beijing universities the iconic photograph of the man standing
in front of a column of tanks close to the square (above).
The party’s memory-eradication campaign has been so effective that only
15 out of 100 of them correctly identified the picture.
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