Re:Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The ...
by pasabagi on Sunday February 07, 2021 @05:30PM
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The current CCP consists of those who pushed back against the excesses of the cultural revolution - I think you get much less scrutiny for criticising than celebrating this part of Mao's legacy - I know of one instance where somebody was arrested for making a big-character poster with 'the cultural revolution was good', for instance.
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Re:Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The ...
by Elaine-H on Sunday February 07, 2021 @10:51PM
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Yes or no, Deng was obviously against the Cultural Revolution, but Xi isn't so.
Evidence: "The Two 'Cannot Negates'" - In English: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00094609.2016.12... - In Chinese: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%A9%E5%80%8B%E4%B8%8D%E8...
Re:Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The ...
by baybal2 on Sunday February 07, 2021 @06:34PM
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> The current CCP consists of those who pushed back against the excesses of the cultural revolution
No...
At maximum, "cultural revolutionaries" were just silenced for one generation.
Re:Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The ...
by pasabagi on Sunday February 07, 2021 @07:14PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping#Early_life_and_educ...
The bit where his sister committed suicide during the cultural revolution jumps out as sort of character forming, but in more general terms, do you have any chinese party sources praising the cultural revolution? The closest I can think of is the now vanished Bo Xilai.