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2014 Ran Yunfei: Interrogation Record from Anti-Counterrevolutionary Purges of the Early 1950s

Posted on 04/14/2026 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Other articles by Ran Yunfei translation on this translation blog. Wikipedia article on Ran Yunfei Related: On the Hundred Flowers Speak Out Freely Campaign and the suppression that followed: Chinese Language Wikipedia on the 1956-7 Hundred Flowers Campaign English translation … Continue reading →

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2014: (24) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter 24 “Exile”

Posted on 12/10/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Liu Nianchun’s novel 《劫在中南海》chapters translated thus far on this blog are listed at 2014: (1-2) Liu Nianchun’s Novel 《劫在中南海》”The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapters 1 – 2 The previous chapter: 2014: (23) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》 “The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” Chapter 23 “Dreams Come True” The … Continue reading →

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2014: (4) Liu Nianchun’s Novel《劫在中南海》”The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” — on the Repression of the Intellectuals Chapter 4

Posted on 10/10/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Liu Nianchun’s novel 《劫在中南海》”The Catastrophe at Zhongnanhai” continues below with Chapter Four on Mao’s persecution of China’s intellectuals along with whoever else was grabbed along the way fill out the 5% quota in his various rectification campaigns. Liu Nianchun’s novel … Continue reading →

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Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir: An Overview

Posted on 04/09/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

China in the 1950s, after nearly twenty years of foreign invasion and civil war, deserved a rest. However, in that decade, political, ideological, and social revolutions—often implemented bloodily by work teams—incited peasants to kill landlords (an estimated one million) during … Continue reading →

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2021: Hu Yaobang, Hua Guofeng and the Rehabilitation of Former ‘Landlords and Wealthy Elements’ — the Non-Rightist Number Four of the ‘Black Five’ Elements

Posted on 04/05/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The rehabilitation of the rightists, just one of the Five Black Categories who were long imprisoned and persecuted for their thought crimes, has gotten the most attention. After what might be called the re-founding of the PRC under Hua Guofeng … Continue reading →

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1960: On Huang Wu’s Rightist Labor Camp “Logger’s Diary” 《伐木日记》

Posted on 03/05/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Some other rightist and anti-rightist campaign related translations on this translation blog: May the Woodcutter Awake 让伐木者醒来 Shu Wu Section 1: Introduction and Background Huang Wu is gone. When I received the bad news, my first thought was: Huang Wu … Continue reading →

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2021 Li Jianglin: Parting Ways with My Red Family

Posted on 01/08/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Li Jianglin wrote several books on Tibetan history. See 2025 He Qinglian: Remembering Tibet Historian Li Jianglin Li Jianglin VOA Interview: Parting Ways with her Red Family, This Revolution is Wrong 美国之音： 李江琳：与红色家庭分道扬镳，这场革命是错的 VOA narrator introduces Li Jianglin Li Jianglin, a … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 11/06/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

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

Posted on 11/05/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

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: Part VIII Party Openness Campaign Confronts Unanticipated Democracy Movement Emerging Down Below; Party Itself at Root of the Dread ‘Three Evils’

Posted on 11/03/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Translated below is Part VIII of my full translation of the 878-page Renmin University September 1958 book Selected Rightist Speeches from Institutions of Higher Education published by the Office of Socialist Ideology Education, Communist Party Committee, Renmin University of China 【高等学校右派言論选編 中共中国人民大学委員会社会主义思想敎育办公室】. The … Continue reading →

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