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1957: Part IX Excesses of 1955-57 Campaign to Eradicate Counterrevolutionaries; Defending Hu Feng in the Arts

Foreshadowing the excesses of the 1957- 1959 Anti-Rightist Campaign — which the Party admitted twenty years later to be 99% excessive — its future victims criticized the many excesses of the 1955 – 57 Campaign to Eradicate Hidden Revolutionaries aka … Continue reading

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1957:Hundred Flowers Critiques of the Party by Rightists Part V — Party Committee System and Factionalism

In Part V of this book of criticisms draw from the 1957 Hundred Flowers period when the Communist Party demanded that people speak out with criticisms of the Party so that it could improve its work, many people went along, … Continue reading

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Reading Ye Fu’s “Requiem for a Landlord”

After reading Ye Fu’s essay Requiem for a Landlord , he wrote the story of his own grandfather, a murdered scapegoat of Mao’s 1951 land reforms that killed millions of landowners, big and small as well as other troublesome people … Continue reading

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2013 Deng Yuwen: Why Do So Few Chinese Have Regrets About the Cultural Revolution?

I found Deng Yuwen‘s   邓聿文 2013 article on the China Digital Times website “Why Do Chinese People Feel Regrets About Their Behavior During the Cultural Revolution” 邓聿文 | 中国人为何对文革少有忏悔 moving.  China media controls, the rationale for them —  the reluctance of leaders … Continue reading

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