A seminar in Paris, the 15th of December on Mao and popular memory.

Mao ZedongThe policy of the Communist Party to impose its vision of history has contributed to a form of amnesia and multiple restrictions on the evocation of the Maoist period, but also gave rise to many reactions: the actors of this period getting older wanted to testify; economic liberalization and especially the development of the internet could allow this to happen.

Newspapers, photographs, documentaries, personal and family autobiographies, a significant amount of information was published. Major … Lire la suite