‘Sparks’ Review: A War in Chinese History, Today

Blank sheets of paper have become an antigovernment protest symbol in China. ‘Even in the darkest of times,” Hannah Arendt once wrote, “we have the right to expect some illumination.” Ian Johnson presents Arendt’s comment as the epigraph to “Sparks,” and appropriately so: It sounds the great theme…

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