Official Launch of the China Unofficial Archives 民间档案馆
13 December 2023, 13:00 GMT – online event
Official Launch of the China Unofficial Archives 民间档案馆 www.minjian-danganguan.org
Join us for this special edition of our Conference, Deconstructed to mark the official launch of China Unofficial Archives. We will have a panel discussion with Ian Johnson, author of Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future and Shao Jiang, author of Citizen Publications in China Before the Internet to discuss a significant and unique new online archive which will be launched at this event.
Billed as the first independent archive of unofficial citizen histories, 民间历史 in Chinese, China Unofficial Archives (CUA) spans 75 years of samizdat magazines, books, and movies. It currently features over 860 items but has plans to grow ten-fold in the coming years as it scans and makes available online material that is in the public domain (and thus not-IPR protected). The site is curated, with introductions to the items, and fully bilingual. Aimed at global audiences, its goal is to show the span and breadth of Chinese people’s efforts to write their own history, free of political control.
Following a short presentation by each speaker, they will field questions, advice and constructive criticism from the audience.
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Speakers:
Ian Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, academic, and founder of CUA
Shao Jiang, activist-scholar and author, advisor to CUA
Gerda Wielander, Director of the CCC, panel chair
Once you register, the link to the Zoom meeting will be sent closer to the date of the event.
Contact Information
Gerda Wielander, G.Wielander@westminster.ac.uk
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