Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution

Craig Calhoun is university professor of social sciences at Arizona State University, former director and president of the London School of Economics, and author of Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China (University of California, 1994). His newest book, co-authored with Dilip Gaonkar and Charles Taylor, is Degenerations of Democracy (Harvard, 2022).

Craig Calhoun

History as Dissent: On Ian Johnson’s “Sparks” and Tania Branigan’s “Red Memory”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

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"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Craig Calhoun is university professor of social sciences at Arizona State University, former director and president of the London School of Economics, and author of Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China (University of California, 1994). His newest book, co-authored with Dilip Gaonkar and Charles Taylor, is Degenerations of Democracy (Harvard, 2022).

Craig Calhoun

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History as Dissent: On Ian Johnson’s “Sparks” and Tania Branigan’s “Red Memory”