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Ian Johnson - Digital dissent: How grassroots historians are rewriting China’s past

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Dates:12 October 2021
Times:12:30 - 13:30
What is it:Webinar
Organiser:Manchester China Institute
How much:Free
Speaker:Ian Johnson
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At a time when many in the West are convinced that China has perfected the art of dictatorship, a growing number of writers, artists, bloggers, and filmmakers are challenging the Chinese Communist Party on its most sensitive turf: its control of history. These grassroots historians are using digital technologies to document the party's missteps, from its ascent to power in the 1940s to its coverup of the coronavirus. The result: a remarkable outpouring of samizdat publications and underground films that are slowly breaking the state's monopoly on the truth.

Photo credit: Sim Chi Yin/Magnum

Price: Free

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Ian Johnson

Biography: Ian Johnson is the Stephen A. Schwarzman Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. A Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society, religion, and history, he was awarded a 2020-2021 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars fellowship for a new book he is writing on China's unofficial history.

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