Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scope. In the Soviet Union, where the book circulated among scholars, it restored a long-abandoned standard of professional integrity to Soviet historiography. As one Russian practitioner lamented, "Stalin beat out of us the capacity to think independently and to doubt, without which there is no search for truth...
...really be that easy? Can memory be so short? Can history be rewritten by proclamation of the Beijing Communist Party propaganda department? Eerily, China's top leaders apparently believe that if they repeat the lie enough times, it will turn into truth. More chilling still, Chinese citizens outside the capital, with little access to independent information, seemed to accept the government's sanitized version of events. Perhaps they are relieved to be no longer teetering on the brink of civil war. Perhaps they find a military occupation, 1,000 arrests and a revision of history a small price...
...breathtaking lie is manipulated by officials with the doggedness of Orwell's Ministry of Truth. A long-haired man is marched before Chinese television cameras, looking dejected. Viewers have just been told that two vigilant women in Dalian, east of Beijing, spotted the errant man buying cigarettes and informed authorities, who then arrested him. His crime? "Rumormongering." His deed? Appearing in pirated American television footage estimating casualties in the Tiananmen massacre at up to 20,000 people. "I am a counterrevolutionary ," the man now says. "I admit my crime...
...truth was different, and Beijing knew it. An estimated 5,000 citizens died in only a few hours between Saturday night and Sunday morning after units of the P.L.A.'s 27th Army launched their brutal assault to oust pro-democracy students from Tiananmen; the exact number of victims may never be known...
...recapturing a tender moment they shared as children brings redemption. She learns that "love isn't something you wait for. It's something you do." The novel has echoes of faddish self-help themes, but by interweaving the stories and dreams of three willful women, Morris offers a comforting truth about families. We build our memories inside the memories of others, and what they remember can take root in us as well...