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1985: Anti-Party Novel Liu Zhidan and How Secretary Xi’s Dad Got Into Trouble About It

Factional struggles including those between ‘left’ and ‘right’ and between those who lived in the base areas and those who lived underground before 1949 in KMT-controlled areas have characterized the Chinese Communist Party and of the PRC since 1949. Xi … Continue reading

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2023 Censors: Stop End Ming/End PRC Parallels Speculation

Apparently Secretary Xi (or at least his ever-vigilant censors) doesn’t want people to suspect that he will be the Party General Secretary of a fallen PRC just as Chongzhen was the last emperor of the fallen Ming Dynasty. History must … Continue reading

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