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Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
Top of the pile
86
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
92/100Critics
81/100Scholars
Author:
Ian Johnson
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Date:
September 26, 2023
Describes how some of China's best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on its most hallowed ground: its control of history.
What The Reviewers Say
Superb, stylishly written.
Illuminating.
If [the subject] sounds in any way dry, this book will assure you that it’s not. Sparks is a work of scholarship, investigative journalism of a kind that rarely happens in the age of slashed budgets, with eyewitness accounts of brutality that will chill your blood.
It is deeply satisfying to read a book about China that could only have been written after decades of serious engagement with the country.
