âRed Cradlesâ Nurture Chinaâs Next Generation of Communist Leaders
Communist Party schools and academies are inculcating Chinese officials in Xi Jinping Thought as the country shifts in a more authoritarian direction.
Cadres of the China Executive Leadership Academy in Jinggangshan during a training course in Huangyangjie, China, in April. Study programs for officials include visits to venerated sites of the revolution.Credit.Roman Pilipey/EPA, via Shutterstock
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On a leafy campus in northwest Beijing, dotted with statues of Marx, Mao and other Communist saints, the Chinese leader Xi Jinping is training his âloyal successors,â the next generation of officials who will drive the resurgence of one-party rule.
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Hardly is the blood dry on the Brexit deal than the naughty French are making fools of us. The “Fizz de Provence” made with Noilly Prat and “local flavours” from the “pretty seaside village of Marseillan in Provence”, concocted by the founder of a Paris cocktail bar (Cocktail of the week: fizz de Provence – recipe, 25 December) was clearly a mean joke. Marseillan is in Hérault, not Provence, and most of it is on a lagoon, not the sea. Lemons and tinned olives are not local to the neighbourhood, as any French cocktail expert would surely know.
There is so much to learn about China and these books are a good start
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We still know so little about China, a country that has been the centre of global power for centuries and is reshaping the 21st century.
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The American Civil War comes immediately to mind but it isn t even close.
As many as 750,000 Americans died between 1861 and 1865 in the conflict between northern and southern states.
But a decade earlier, a civil war in China left between 20 and 30 million people dead.
The Taiping Rebellion ranks among the worst conflicts in human history.
Uncovering the Cultural Revolution’s Awful Truths Barbara Demick © Provided by The Atlantic During the Cultural Revolution, a rebel group subjects a rival leader to a criticism session. (Li Zhensheng / Contact Press Images)
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In China, history long occupied a quasi-religious status. During imperial times, dating back thousands of years and enduring until the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911, historians’ dedication to recording the truth was viewed as a check against wrongdoing by the emperor. Rulers, though forbidden from interfering, of course tried.
So have their successors. Among the most intent on harnessing history for political gain are the current leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. They routinely scrub Chinese-language scholarly books, journals, and textbooks of anything that might undermine their own legitimacy including anything that tarnishes Mao Zedong, the founding father of the p
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