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The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
Ever notice how some events just disappear from public memory, not because they’re forgotten but because someone’s made sure you never learned about them? The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests are exactly that kind of story in China—a massacre that’s been scrubbed from history books, conversation, and even the internet. Louisa Lim’s book dives into how a whole nation’s memory got hijacked—and what that means for the people who lived it and those who came after.
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