Round table discussion on "Fantômes rouges. China: the haunted memory of the Cultural Revolution".

Tania Branigan, a journalist with the Guardian for over twenty years, was a correspondent in China between 2008 and 2015. Close to Chinese society, the journalist takes the measure of the persistence of ghosts from the Cultural Revolution in the Chinese present. By meeting witnesses to this era, both former Red Guards and descendants of victims, she explores with remarkable depth the disastrous consequences of this decade of murderous frenzy on Chinese society and the minds of survivors: fundamental instability of the world, collapse of the value system, and above all continuity of the trauma across generations. Scars that official silence tries to bury in oblivion - in vain.

Winner of McGill University's Cundill Prize for History, this book shows that we can't understand today's China without understanding the Cultural Revolution. The round table will review the issues of the CCP's control of history for political purposes, and the challenges of preserving society's memory. It will also address the respective roles of journalists and researchers in the restitution of alternative memories and the analysis of their forms of expression.

With:

• Michel Bonnin, historian, Emeritus Director of Studies at EHESS
• Chloé Froissart, Professor of History and Political Science in the Department of Chinese Studies at Inalco
• Pierre Haski, Geopolitical Columnist on France Inter, President of RSF, former China correspondent for Libération

The round table will be held in English.