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2007/4 China and its Past: Return, Reinvention, Forgetting
Jean-Philippe Béja

Forbidden Memory, Unwritten History: The Difficulty of Structuring an Opposition Movement in the PRC  

Ce document sera publié en ligne en texte intégral le 30 décembre 2010.

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This paper suggests how control over transmission of memory by the Party, applying China’s own dynastic tradition of reinterpreting history, and borrowing the Soviet practice of erasing people and events from records, has hindered the structuring of an opposition movement. Every resistance movement since 1949 has had to start from scratch as their actors, isolated from the past, see themselves as innovators. The paper analyses the 1957 Anti-Rightist Movement and the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations to illustrate the thesis.

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Jean-Philippe Béja, « Forbidden Memory, Unwritten History: The Difficulty of Structuring an Opposition Movement in the PRC   », China perspectives, n°2007/4, 2007, [En ligne], mis en ligne le 30 décembre 2010. URL : http://chinaperspectives.revues.org/document2623.html. Consulté le 23 novembre 2009.

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