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In 'Sparks,' Ian Johnson highlights China's 'grassroots historians'
Listen to the episodeA profile of China's grassroots historians — journalists, filmmakers and artists — who have fought back against Xi Jinping's control of historical narratives to record the country's full history, including famines, virus outbreaks and ethnic conflicts, aided by technologies like PDFs, digital cameras and VPNs.
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