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2024: ChatGPT 4o on Hypocrisy East and West

I asked the ChatGPT 4o Oracle about conceptions of hypocrisy in Chinese and English.  Fun — although ChatGPT isn’t always right and one always needs to check — but that goes for the blatherings of mere carbon-based entities as well.  … Continue reading

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2021: Chinese Spies in Russia Steal Military secrets and Technology

See also related translations on China-Russia intelligence interactions: Some links added, run through Google Translate, to Russian media sources that provide more information on some of the cases mentioned. The Dragon “Jackals”: China Spies in Russia, Exporting Military Secrets and … 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 X: Exiled to Yanyuan Reform Through Labor Farm

Table of Contents 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  Previous installment: Rightist Memoir IX: Leaving the Valley of Death Chapter Five   Exiled to Yanyuan Farm Our … 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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