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Category Archives: Fascism
2014: (26) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter 26: “All Things Are Connected”
Liu Nianchun’s novel 《劫在中南海》chapters translated thus far on this blog are listed at 2014: (1-2) Liu Nianchun’s Novel 《劫在中南海》”The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapters 1 – 2 The previous chapter: 2014: (25) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter 25 “Guilt by Association” … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Revolution, Fascism, Governance, History 历史, Ideology 思想
Tagged Book of Songs, Cai Tiegen, Chiang Kai-shek, China, Communism, Communist Party, Daqing, Dazhai, death, 蒋介石, family, fear, funerals, history, ideology, intellectuals, Li Da, lover, Lu Xun, Mao Zedong, mourning, PLA, poem, poetry, politics, PRC, relationships, repression, slave, Tiananmen, Xiao Ke, Yuwen, Zhou Enlai, 共产党, 中国
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2014: (15) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter 15 Origins of Absolute Power and Servility
Liu Nianchun’s novel 《劫在中南海》chapters translated thus far on this blog are listed at 2014: (1-2) Liu Nianchun’s Novel 《劫在中南海》”The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapters 1 – 2 The previous chapter: 2014: (14) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter Fourteen “Absolute Power … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Governance, History 历史, Literature 文学
Tagged Armed Struggle, bloodline, bloodline theory, Chen Xitong, China, Chinese, collapse, Communism, Communist Party, Cultural Revolution, Du Fu, Engels, 胡錦濤, 陳希同, 西域記, 馬克思, 黨建設, foreign aid, foreign assistance, history, hu jintao, Jiang QIng, Jiang Zemin, Journey to the West, Lin Biao, Mao Zedong, Marx, Marxism, Monkey, party building, politics, PRC, princelings, Red Guards, Song Binbin, Soviet Union, Stalin, succession, Three Magic Weapons, Three Worlds, United Front, Zhang Hanzhi, Zhang Shizhao, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, 周恩來, 孫悟空, 對外援助, 文革, 林彪, 毛澤東, 江澤民, 中国
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2014: (14) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter Fourteen “Absolute Power and Human Nature”
Liu Nianchun’s novel 《劫在中南海》chapters translated thus far on this blog are listed at 2014: (1-2) Liu Nianchun’s Novel 《劫在中南海》”The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapters 1 – 2 The previous chapter: 2014: (13) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter Thirteen “Liu … Continue reading
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Tagged absolutism, Changsha, China, Communism, Communist Party, deng xiaoping, dynastic cycle, dynasty, 鄧小平, famine, Governance, history, Hunan, Leshan, Mao Zedong, Marxism, Peng Dehuai, politics, PRC, Wang Dongxing, Zhou Enlai, 共產黨, 專政, 毛澤東, 中国
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2014: (13) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter Thirteen “Liu Shaoqi’s Wrongful Death Demanded Redress; Deng Xiaoping Reverses Course”
Liu Nianchun’s novel 《劫在中南海》chapters translated thus far on this blog are listed at 2014: (1-2) Liu Nianchun’s Novel 《劫在中南海》”The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapters 1 – 2 The previous chapter: 2014: (12) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter Twelve: Fleeing … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Revolution, Fascism, History 历史, Literature 文学, Politics 政治
Tagged 7000 Cadres Conference, Chen Yonggui, Chiang Ching-kuo, China, Chinese, Communism, Cultural Revolution, deng xiaoping, Dong Zhongshu, famine, Hegel, history, hu jintao, Jiang Zemin, Liu Shaoqi, Lushan, Lushan Conference, Mao Zedong, Marxism, poetry, politics, PRC, Seven Thousand Cadres Conference, Wang Dongxing, Zhang Yufeng, Zhou Enlai, 共产党, 中国
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2014: (10) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter Ten: Character is Destiny
Liu Nianchun’s novel 《劫在中南海》chapters translated thus far on this blog are listed at 2014: (1-2) Liu Nianchun’s Novel 《劫在中南海》”The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapters 1 – 2 The previous chapter: 2014: (9) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter Nine: Mao Zedong and … Continue reading
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2017: Chinese Professor Li Ling on George Orwell’s Anti-Soviet Novels “Animal Farm” and “1984”
When I lived in China I would come across 1984 in Chinese bookstores and wonder why the Party didn’t take it personally (or partily?). The answer is that Orwell’s books were taken as anti-Soviet rather than as anti-communist. His books … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, History 历史, Ideology 思想, Literature 文学, Politics 政治
Tagged 1984, Alvin Toffler, Animal Farm, Armand Hammer, book review, books, censorship, ChatGPT, China, Chinese, DeepSeek, dictatorship, extremism, George Orwell, left, Li Ling, literature, neibu faxing, Orwell, Peking University, Pierre Ryckmans, pigs, politics, purges, right, Russia, Snowball, Soviet Union, Stalin, Stalinist, totalitarian, translation, Trotsky, USSR, 内部发行, 中国
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2025: Chinese and Russian Scholars on Personality Cults
The question of personality cult often comes up in discussion of historic leaders of Russia’s Stalin, China’s Mao Zedong and Germany’s Adolf Hitler. What explains their success? Psychologists look to psychology, sociologists to sociology, political scientists to the dynamics of … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Literature 文学, Politics 政治, Russia
Tagged China, Chinese, cult of personality, history, Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong, personality, personality cult, philosophy, politics, PRC, Russian, Soviet, Soviet Union, Stalin, USSR, Vasily Grossman, 毛泽东, 中国
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20th C: George Orwell and Lu Xun
Totalitarianism unfortunately is always topical. England’s George Orwell and China’s Lu Xun were both powerful critics of oppressive regimes worth reading today. They approached totalitarianism from different historical and cultural perspectives. Orwell, writing from the mid-20th century, focused on the … Continue reading
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Tagged books, China, Chinese, Communist Party, Europe, George Orwell, history, Lu Xun, Nazi, politics, Republic of China, totalitarian, totalitarianism, 共产党, 中国
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