Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China

by Margaret Hillenbrand

Book Overview

When nations decide to disown their troubled pasts, how does this strategic disavowal harden into social fact? In Negative Exposures, Margaret Hillenbrand investigates the erasure of key aspects of such momentous events as the Nanjing Massacre, the Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square protests from the Chinese historical consciousness, not due to amnesia or censorship but through the operations of public secrecy. Knowing what not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478008008
• ISBN13: 9781478008002
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"