中国政府最近新通过一项法律，该项法律将惩罚官方认为错误的历史叙述。林慕莲 为《失忆人民共和国—重返天安门》一书作者，她认为在当下的中国她将无法完成此书的写作。
一段不应忘却的历史
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CATEGORY: Volume 47.01 Spring 2018
Podcast: Hay author special
We spoke to three leading authors – David Olusoga, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Javier Cercas – about taboos in their own countries, the issues that people are not talking enough about and the stories that might be currently manipulated
Why nations want to make your past disappear
Manipulating history is part of the political playbook right now, Rachael Jolley argues
Podcast: Saving history and the truth about Cleopatra
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Contents: The abuse of history
The spring 2018 issue of Index on Censorship magazine takes a special look at how governments and other powers across the globe are manipulating history for their own ends
The abuse of history
he spring 2018 issue of Index on Censorship magazine explores how across the globe, governments and various groups are using their powers to change their narratives – and manipulate history. Lucy Worsley talks about the Tudor Court and Margaret MacMillan discusses how Germany rewrote its past in the interwar period. Louisa Lim says she wouldn’t be able to write her critically acclaimed book on the Tiananmen Square Massacre today. And Irene Caselli meets the duo behind a museum in Cuba seeking to readdress the country’s dissident past. Elsewhere in the magazine bestselling Palestinian author Abbad Yahya talks to Index about the threats against his life, Laura Silvia Battaglia examines how refugees in Italy are self-censoring themselves in order to fit into their new society and ahead of the release of her new book, award-winning author Christie Watson writes an exclusive short story for Index.
Women of the Wild West: Forgotten pioneer women take charge
Women of the Wild West have been omitted from popular history and culture, but they’re finally receiving airtime, writes Jan Fox