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> You think nobody knows what happened? Please. Read The People's Republic of Amnesia. You might be surprised by how little most people, especially young peopl

• ggm 2y ago
  Thank you for the book recommendation. It is true younger people may have less overt knowledge of this, but I am old, and I mainly spend time with older Chinese, people who would have been postgraduate students or early career academics in '89. Some of them have memories of being sent to the countryside in prior times, a cohort of phenomenally skilled, motivated mature students passed through the Chinese tertiary educational system when things normalised. The party and government, senior leadership across state enterprises, are not under 30. That's why I talked to how institutional practices using AI like this interest me: the recipients have finely tuned bullshit filters, and state planning based off lies don't last very long. But you make a good point: I probably overstate how widespread a certain cynical self interested cone of silence based on realism exists.
  • f30e3dfed1c9 2y ago
    > The party and government, senior leadership across state enterprises, are not under 30. That is certainly true: none of them have forgotten about 1989 and they never will. Neither will many people (including some of my family and friends) in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and elsewhere. Inside the mainland, though, it's a very different story, or at least, that's my impression both from the book I mentioned and some other sources.
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