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1957: Part X ‘Rightists’ Criticize Agricultural Collectivization, Industrial and Commercial Policy

Collectivization of Chinese agriculture and the transformation of commerce and industry during the first years of the PRC are the subject of ‘rightist’ critiques in Part X of a full translation of statements and talk excerpts collection at Renmin University … 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 XVIII: Purgatory in Heavy Chains

From Kong Lingping’s memoir. For a list of earlier installments see Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir I: “Blood Chronicle” By Long-time Prisoner of Mao Zedong I knew Kong Lingping when I worked in Chengdu at the US Consulate General 2007 – 2012. The … Continue reading

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Why Does Central Document #1 Still Stress Food Security?

Food security is always a concern in China, a 1.3 billion population country that still remembers the bad economic and agricultural policy-induced famine that killed upwards of 30 million Chinese during 1959-1961. In the mid 1990s, many Chinese experts shared … 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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Rightist Memoir “Blood Chronicles” : Cultural Revolution’s End

This chapter treats some of the Cultural Revolution years (mid 60s to mid 70s) at the Yanyuan reform through labor prison farm for political prisoners. Chongqing author Kong Lingping’s rightist memoir describes twenty-two years in Chinese prison camps and subsequent … Continue reading

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