History as Dissent: On Ian Johnson’s “Sparks” and Tania Branigan’s “Red Memory”
Craig Calhoun reviews two books on history and memory in China: Ian Johnson’s “Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the...
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 reviews two books on history and memory in China: Ian Johnson’s “Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the...