Cultural Politics… Revolutionary Nostalgia 9 Aug 20099 Aug 2009 Nobody does public memory like the Germans. Der Spiegel reports on the multiple channels of commemorations of the "turning-point year," 1989. The magazine excerpts, in red, are followed by my…
China… Remembering Tiananmen and 1989 in Europe [1] 19 Jul 200922 Jul 2009 June 4, 1989 may lay buried under new epochs already, but the meaning of that date for China and its observers is clearly going to continue reverberate for decades. The…
Adam Cathcart 