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Rightist Memoir XLIII: My Family Falls Apart

Find table of contents chapter links at Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir I: “Blood Chronicle” By Long-time Prisoner of Mao Zedong The full Chinese text can be downloaded from bannedbook.org  Chapter 9 My Family Falls Apart Mother had been feeling tightness in her chest … Continue reading

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Rightist Memoir XXVI: Final Cultural Revolution Shockwaves

Kong Linping in his memoir tells the story of a murderous terraced paddy field and road construction project that killed many of the slave laborers in his labor camp. Chongqing author Kong Lingping’s rightist memoir describes twenty-two years in Chinese … Continue reading

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Rightist Memoir XXVII: Political Prisoners “Searching for the Light” at the Close of The Cultural Revolution

Here is another passage from the long (920 pages in Chinese) memoir Bloody Chronicles from long-time (22 years) rightist slave labor camp prisoner Kong Lingping 孔令平. In 2010 Kong’s Hong Kong publisher sent me copies of his books. By that … Continue reading

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2009: Cost of Blind Pursuit of GDP Criticized After Henan Mine Disaster

  Recently in the Leadership Decision-making Information 领导决策信息 September 14th issue, I found an article on the systemic problems that the exclusive focus on GDP creates: “Behind the Mining Disaster, Behind the Coal Pit Boss, Behind the Protective Umbrella” “Behind the … Continue reading

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