In “Sparks,” the journalist Ian Johnson chronicles the methods and motivations of the activists trying to preserve a record of the atrocities of the past.
Modern China was built on the nearly thirty ruthless years of Mao’s rule. The country’s elite the “literati” of educated small landowners who held the empire together at the local level was brutally eliminated. Almost everyone’s personal life was destroyed: homes searched for incriminating books, thoughts remolded by struggle sessions, and streets inundated by the din of tinny
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