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In 100 Years the Chinese Communist Party Goes Through 3 Major Revolutions

In 100 Years the Chinese Communist Party Goes Through 3 Major Revolutions
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How Should the Citizens of Hong Kong Prepare for Dictatorship?

Thus, the population was shaken up, forced into silence, and left without any possible leaders of resistance. So it was that ‘wisdom’ was instilled, that former ties and friendships were cut off.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
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Can moral life survive dictatorship? When a government intimidates its subjects; when it sows mistrust among them; when it penalizes virtue and incentivizes servility, how might men and women keep faith with themselves and their fellows? Citizens of democratic states tend to ponder such questions, if at all, with a detached, even theoretical, interest. Dictatorships happened then or, if extant, occur over there. But in the once-free city of Hong Kong such insouciance has vanished. ....

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There is so much to learn about China and these books are a good start

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. ....

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China's Rebel Historians

Uncovering the Cultural Revolution’s Awful Truths
Barbara Demick
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During the Cultural Revolution, a rebel group subjects a rival leader to a criticism session. (Li Zhensheng / Contact Press Images)
This article was published online on December 18, 2020.
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 fou ....

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China: The Virtues of the Awful Convulsion

edited by Jeremy Brown and Matthew D. Johnson
Harvard University Press, 468 pp.
“Bianyuanren” Jishi [A Record of “Marginal People”]
by Yang Kuisong
Secret Archives of the Cultural Revolution in Guangxi
edited by Yongyi Song et al
Mirror Media Group, 36-volume e-book
Other Materials Consulted
by Guo Jian, Yongyi Song, and Yuan Zhou
Rowman and Littlefield, second edition, 542 pp.
The Chinese Cultural Revolution Database
edited by Yongyi Song and others
Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, third edition, CD–ROM
The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis
by Wu Yiching
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For decades, Beijing’s Beihai Park has been one of the city’s most beloved retreats a strip of green around a grand lake to the north of the Communist Party’s leadership compound, its waters crowded with electric rental boats shaped like ducks and lotus flowers. A former imperial garden, Beihai is home to stone sc ....

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