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Writer Xue Mo ranked No.1 in the list of Top Topics in the event, who even surpassed the Spanish Guest of Honor and became the most talked-about figure .
Since the Tiananmen Square killings it has become fashionable within the Chinese leadership to refer to dissident intellectuals as “scum.” That was Mao’s view, too. In 1942, the chairman, his armies besieged by both Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese army, took time off for zheng-feng, or rectification movement, in which he laid down rules for “unclean” Chinese authors.
China recently issued an action plan on saving food to ensure supplies and security amid challenges caused by increasing food demand and global climate change.