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A dust of the times falls on an individual and becomes a mountain. Unfortunately, we live in a dusty age. If I want to make a summary of the three-year epidemic prevention, I would like to call it a political campaign-type epidemic prevention farce .
Epidemic farce
2022 is still a year when human society reverses and accelerates its demise . Fortunately, under the influence of many factors such as economic downward pressure, white paper movement protests, and international coexistence of public opinion, those in power at the end of the year finally stopped this political movement-type epidemic prevention farce, and the bottom-level ass leeks finally had Chance to survive. Thinking back to the present last year, I was still locked at home, still grabbing food, still worrying about what to eat tomorrow, still worrying about when this absurd epidemic prevention farce will end, and still worrying that the reality of this farce will last forever. continue. Recalling that period of time, only the once-a-day sex test did not dare to delay at all, honestly doing nucleic acid, wearing a mask, showing a health code, and being trained to be obedient, it can be said that it is full of slavishness.
Even after the unblocking of Shanghai at the beginning of June last year, I still haven’t been freed from that fear, but have become more and more autistic. Until now, my mentality is not much different from that of Shanghai during the closure of the city. Thought censorship, literary inquisition, concentration camps, white terror, lies and deceit, these have not disappeared because of the end of the epidemic. Every day I feel like living in the cracks between history and reality, full of infinite fear for the future.
Perhaps we have already heard the nonsense that you don’t care about politics and politics will care about you , but after experiencing this disaster (epidemic prevention farce), we can more or less feel the change of a country’s political climate How it profoundly affects and restricts the state and possibility of human existence . At certain life-threatening moments, politics directly or indirectly determines whether we can survive in this world.
From the closure of Shanghai last year to the present, in more than a year, the blog has rarely been updated, and it has gradually faded out of Twitter. In addition to normal work and life, most of the time and energy are spent on research and thinking about why this country and society are performing absurd epidemic prevention farces. Combining everything that happened and exposed during the past three years of epidemic prevention farce, as well as my own life feelings, I have more and more ideas to explore how the political foundation of this epidemic prevention farce was established step by step. So recently I compiled some books I have read in the past year or so and some personal thoughts.
reading notes
Kong Feili, “Soul Call: The Great Chinese Sorcery Panic of 1768”
The first time I read this book was during the 2021 May Day holiday, when I was on a cycling trip around Taihu Lake during the 2021 May Day holiday . After the closure of Shanghai in 2022, I read it again. I can’t figure out why I read this book again. I remember seeing some unbelievable anti-epidemic farces at that time, such as the anti-epidemic staff in a certain community throwing the vegetables purchased by the resident group into the trash can. This kind of anti-epidemic farce puzzled me. I can’t understand that after groups like Dabai and Red Armbands have a little power in the name of epidemic prevention, they will stage incredible farces of epidemic prevention.
Also, I saw a short video of beating villagers in the name of epidemic prevention on Twitter at that time, which reminded me of another personal experience of mine: when Wuhan pneumonia first broke out in 2020, my grandmother died at the beginning of the new year Six unfortunately left this world that day. I vaguely remember that the road to my grandmother’s house was also sealed off that day, and I couldn’t drive there, I could only ride an electric car. On the road at the junction of the village and the village, he was stopped by the local red armband and refused to let him go. He explained the reason to him and refused to let him go. It was so deceiving, I was so angry that I kicked open the fender and rode a tram to force my way past. Then the red armband called the local police station, and a dozen people in two police cars came to arrest me. At that time, I couldn’t figure out why an ordinary villager was so swollen after wearing a red armband. It was not until I read this book that I slowly figured it out.
This book shows people a common phenomenon in Chinese society: the hostility of retribution for grievances everywhere in society. China’s autocratic system began with the unification of China by Qin Shihuang in 221 BC, and has continued for more than two thousand years, with a rich historical accumulation. Even today, power is still monopolized by the autocratic ruling class, and it is very difficult for ordinary people to enjoy power. When the “illusion power” in the name of calling souls or epidemic prevention enters society, ordinary people have weapons to retaliate against each other. The power they can erupt is as terrifying as described in the book.
Once the government seriously launched a campaign against witchcraft, ordinary people would have a great opportunity to settle old grievances or seek personal gain. It’s a loaded weapon thrown in the street for everyone – villainous or good – to take advantage of. In this society where power has always been scarce for ordinary people, maliciously slandering others with the crime of “soul calling” has become a kind of power suddenly available to ordinary people. To anyone persecuted by violent kinsmen or rapacious creditors, this power offered some relief; to those who feared persecution it provided a shield; ;to the envious, it is a compensation; to the villain, it is a power; to the sadist, it is a pleasure.
The powerlessness of people is reflected in the practice of witchcraft and the accusations of witchcraft. For some powerless ordinary people, Hongli’s suppression brought them generous opportunities. Even today, empowering ordinary people remains an unfulfilled promise. Not surprisingly, retribution for wrongs (the most common form of social aggression in a “troubled society”) remains a prominent feature of Chinese social life.
No one mourns the bureaucracy of old China. Even by the standards of the time, the social harm it caused went beyond crushing the ankles of a few helpless vagrants. But for good or ill, it has properties that stand in the way of any kind of fanaticism. Without such an emergency anchor, China would yaw sharply in the storm. In the absence of a viable alternative, rulers can manipulate the fear of the populace, turning it into a terrifying force. Dissidents who live in our time and scapegoats who are vulnerable to accusations because of their social background or eccentric beliefs are targeted by this force.
The history of contemporary China is full of examples of this kind of illusory power entering society. I still remember a conversation with an old Red Guard in Beijing in 1982. He was a low-paid service worker at the time. He said with emotion that Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution was a golden age for people like him who had no formal qualifications to enter society through conventional channels. Mao called on young people to rise up for revolution and rebellion. Satisfied his ambition. He complained that in today’s society, everything has to be passed an exam, and he has no hope of climbing up from the lowest position now.
Gao Hua’s “Historical Notes”
I was reading Gao Hua’s “Historical Notes” recently, and what I was most impressed with was: during the famine sixty years ago, grassroots cadres lied about the death toll, the central government refused to admit the facts, and the news media followed the foolish people to brainwash them. Let’s look at the era we live in again, from false reporting of Wuhan pneumonia to Xi’an’s deception to “zero”. Sixty years later, the taste is still familiar.
So I strongly believe that “people who are full of hope for the future often know nothing about history”. pic.twitter.com/QNhH5AfxPs
— Reimu (@muzi_ii) January 14, 2022
“Historical Notes” is the first book I read in 2022. I started reading it on New Year’s Day, and it took me a long time and effort to finish it. This book is the posthumous work of Professor Gao Hua, which is divided into two volumes and four series, in traditional Chinese.
The first part, “Revolution, Civil War, and Nationalism,” discusses the respective histories of the KMT and the Communist Party before 1949. The CCP as the victor in the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is the focus of this chapter. The selected articles not only reflect its revolutionary process of seizing power, but also reflect some of the embryonic forms of political practice after 1949.
Nationalism and democracy are twins, the difference is: nationalism, which emphasizes collective identity and national identity; democracy, which emphasizes individualism, individual rights, and individual freedom. Theoretically speaking, when a country or a nation is facing a serious crisis, citizens should surrender some of their personal rights in order to obey the national interests and support the country in overcoming the crisis, while the ultimate goal of the country is to protect individual freedom. But in modern times, nationalism has often devoured democracy, which is mainly caused by modern Chinese politics and the general environment. It is also related to people’s misunderstanding, the narrowness and selfishness of the ruling class.
The second part, “Rupture and Continuity”, mainly discusses the era of Mao Zedong, and covers many historical events such as the Three Antis and Five Antis, the Great Leap Forward Movement, the Four Cleansing Movement, and the Lin Biao Incident. Among them, I highly recommend everyone to read the chapter “The Great Leap Forward Movement and the Expansion of State Power” carefully. To some extent, I feel that this epidemic prevention farce is very similar to the political logic behind the Great Leap Forward Movement.
The Great Leap Forward Movement, launched by Mao Zedong himself in 1958 and sweeping across the country, was a utopian political movement. Today, when people think of the Great Leap Forward, they immediately think of such absurd scenes as “high-yield satellites”, “steelmaking for all”, and “commune canteens”. However, the Great Leap Forward was not just a utopian movement. During the Great Leap Forward, state power was rapidly expanded to all fields of society on an unprecedented scale through the impetus of this movement. The Great Leap Forward expanded and strengthened the authority of the state, which not only profoundly changed the face of Chinese society, but also greatly enhanced the public’s awareness of state authority.
During the Great Leap Forward, the will of the state was fully implemented through powerful political mobilization and organizational measures, and state power expanded rapidly in the process.
Compared with previous political movements, the Great Leap Forward was a mass movement on a larger scale. This movement not only promoted the comprehensive penetration of state authority into urban and rural areas, but also established, consolidated and strengthened state power in all areas of social life.
Surprisingly, even at this point, some leading cadres continued to conceal the truth about the famine. Zhou Enlai later recalled that at the Beidaihe Conference held in the summer of 1960, he himself “already realized that there was a food problem, but everyone refused to admit it, and as a result the real situation was covered up.”
It was not until October 1960 that the People’s Daily gave a new interpretation of the situation in its National Day editorial. The editorial said, “In the past two years, most parts of the country have been hit by severe natural disasters, causing serious reductions in food production.” The editorial also declared, “The People’s Commune has permanently freed our peasants from the historical fate of millions or tens of millions of people starving, fleeing famine and dying every time a natural disaster occurs.” Of course, the editorial writers knew that at the time this editorial was published, large numbers of people were starving to death in rural areas across the country, but facts are facts, and propaganda is propaganda.
Also, the Heart-to-Party movement mentioned in the chapter “Political Stratification of Chinese Society 1949-1965” is very interesting. Give the party so high that I don’t know where it went 
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All the teachers jointly held a transformation promotion meeting, and they carried the “big red heart” sign to the streets to parade. On April 4, more than 3,000 democrats, teachers, students and scientific research institutes in various universities in Nanjing held a parade in Nanjing holding high the banners of “Give your heart to the party” and “Give your knowledge to the people”. The Socialist Self-Reform Promotion Conference was also held. On April 21, more than 3,000 people from Nanjing’s industrial and commercial circles held a meeting, announcing the “immediate launch of a heart-to-heart movement with the party.” On April 22, Nanjing’s industrial and commercial circles and democratic parties put forward the slogan of “quick, thorough, deep, and truthful” for “heart-to-heart talks” with the party, expressing their desire to leap forward from “half-heartedness in accepting the party’s leadership and taking the socialist road to single-mindedness.” “. Religious figures in Jiangsu Province have also launched a “heart-to-heart” movement. The Catholic community has “self-selected” and “self-consecrated” bishops, “bringing a new situation to Catholicism in the province.” In the “heart-to-heart” movement, 4,106 people from the democratic parties and business circles in 11 cities in the province shared a total of 470,000 heart-to-heart messages. According to records at the time, this heart-to-heart talk “exposed a lot of their long-concealed decadent ideas and reactionary behavior”12 (). For the “heart-to-heart talk” between the business community and democrats, the organizational principle is “to take care of oneself and seek medical consultation.” Let them first compare the requirements and self-criticism, and then guide them to ask party members and leaders to criticize their “bad ideas” in a targeted manner, and encourage them to break the vulgar view of human relations, “be more advanced, more motivated” and develop mutual understanding. Criticism and ideological struggle, so that “heart-to-heart” can be put into practice and prevent “heart-to-heart” from going through the motions.
After intensive reading of the “Twenty-two Documents” word for word, and repeated cross-checking, the individual’s original petty bourgeois self-consciousness began to split. With the gradual deepening of “discovering one’s true heart”, learners generally have a sense of shame about their own shortcomings and mistakes. Intellectual party members from exploiting families are even more ashamed, thinking that they are really as Mao Zedong said, except for reading something like “dogs” It is worthless to the Communist Party and the people, and what is more serious is that the family background of the exploiting class will even make one’s revolutionary stand shake at the critical moment of the revolution, objectively endangering the revolution! This kind of self-pressure is as heavy as a mountain, and has swept away the bad habits of many intellectual party members, such as complacency and arrogance.
According to Mao Zedong, a person’s class position inevitably determines his views and attitudes. For example: Do you still appreciate bourgeois erroneous ideas of individual freedom and individual liberation in your heart? Are you convincing to give everything to the party? Do you really agree that the exploitative class family you came from is dirty and reactionary? Are you full of contempt for the uneducated workers and peasants, or are you willing to be their pupils? Do you sincerely accept the party’s test, or do you complain of injustice?
The third volume “”From “Big Break” to “Dali””: “New Things” in the Cultural Revolution” is the writing task of the seventh volume of “History of the People’s Republic of China” written by Professor Gao Hua of the Institute of Chinese Culture of the Chinese University of Hong Kong during his lifetime . He has listed the writing outline of the volume, but unfortunately, he has only completed a manuscript of more than 100,000 words.
Why did Mao launch the “Cultural Revolution”? How did the “Cultural Revolution” start? I think Mao Zedong launched the “Cultural Revolution” for two reasons. The first factor: the “Cultural Revolution” embodied Mao’s pursuit of his ideal socialism; , These two factors are intertwined and closely blended together.
In order to quickly establish a powerful socialist country, the leaders of the country have been seeking the “best” system or management form to govern China. They have created many creations and constructed a new ideological narrative. The traditional Chinese Ideological and institutional resources, the experience of the revolutionary era and the integration of Soviet factors have all been used to unify the consciousness of the public. They also attach great importance to the work of mobilizing and organizing the people, so that the degree of social organization and militarization continues to increase
The fourth volume “Feelings in Reading” contains many book reviews, discussing the subjects of both influential figures and ordinary people, writers who followed the Kuomintang regime and moved to Taiwan, and left-wing literati well-known in mainland China. This chapter shows the changes of the times and individual feelings from multiple perspectives through the comments on their memories.
I think it is very important to learn and read history and remember a passage by Mr. Yu Yingshi. He said: The advantage of studying history is not just to look at the lessons of history, and few people accept the lessons of history. No matter how many mistakes were made in the past, they will continue in the future. Because human nature is to have power or interests in hand, but it is difficult to give up. The threshold of power and interests, some people can get through it, and some people can’t get through it. So I think the biggest benefit of reading history is to make us understand human nature.
During the few years I was studying in university, I knew that although Mao Zedong’s mistakes in his later years had been criticized, Mao’s ultra-leftism was still deeply rooted. In the field of modern Chinese history and the history of the CCP, official studies are very practiced, and it has almost become a popular fashion to avoid taboos for saints, or to study as footnotes for some authoritative works.
Yang Jisheng, “Tombstone: A Documentary of the Great Famine in China from 1958 to 1962”
After personally experiencing the closure of Shanghai, I read Yang Jisheng’s book “Tombstone: A Documentary of the Great Famine in China in the 1960s”, and once again fell into deep despair about this society
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Any catastrophe can be molded into the correct collective memory, which then becomes an integral part of regime legitimacy. It is this kind of cleansing of national memory and forced forgetting of crimes that makes the same historical tragedy repeat itself again and again. pic.twitter.com/DfcE6V28Vw
— Reimu (@muzi_ii) June 28, 2022
I only started reading this book after Shanghai was unblocked last year. After going through the lockdown, my mentality has become numb, no matter what absurd things happen, I have become accustomed to it. There were times when I was reading this book that I felt like crying and couldn’t stop the tears and snot. Because the tragedy we are experiencing now happened once more than 60 years ago, and the way the bureaucracy responded to the disaster has not changed much compared to 60 years ago.
From lying and concealing reports when the Wuhan pneumonia first broke out, admonishing Dr. Li Wenliang to “covering ears to zero” in Xi’an and other tactics have been used 60 years ago. How we dealt with the great famine sixty years ago is how we deal with the epidemic prevention now, without any change.
Governments at all levels are doing everything possible to block news of the hunger. The Public Security Bureau controlled all post offices, and all letters sent outside were detained. The Xinyang Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China ordered the post office to withhold more than 12,000 letters asking for help. In order to prevent the hungry people who went out to escape the famine from leaking the news, the entrance of the village was blocked and no escape was allowed. The hungry people who have already fled are paraded through the streets, tortured or other punishments are charged with “blind flow”.
On March 12, 1960, Wang Qiyun, a cadre of the health center, wrote to the Party Central Committee, reflecting the serious problem of people starving to death, and asked the Central Committee to follow the example of “Bao Wencheng and Chenzhou to release grain”. .
Sanbei Commune reported 523 deaths for the first time, 3,889 (later changed to 2,907) for the second report, and 6,668 deaths according to the provincial party committee working group.
Use the empty “national situation is very good” to dilute people’s real hunger and suppress people’s dissatisfaction with hunger.
When a large number of people starved to death in Xinyang and cannibalism was common, the “Henan Daily” also publicized that the situation was excellent, and published seven articles in a row on “March to Communism”.
In the context of starvation everywhere, the New Year’s Day editorial of “Henan Daily” in 1960 continued to whitewash the peace and insisted on an all-round leap forward with the title “Happy start to spring”.
The peasants obviously died of starvation, but it cannot be said that they died of starvation. The leaders of the county party committee, Zhao Yushu and Dong Anchun, went to the Kaocheng Brigade of Wudian Commune to check the condition of the edema disease, and asked the doctor Wang Shanliang: “Why is the edema disease always incurable, and what medicine is missing?” Doctor Wang replied: “Leave only food!” Dong and Dong immediately decided to hand over Dr. Wang to the Congress for criticism and arrest him.
When a large number of farmers starved to death, from February 16 to 18, 1960, the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee held a three-day meeting of the first secretaries of the local, prefecture, and municipal Party committees to discuss the issue of rural public canteens. This meeting did not solve the problem of food shortage in canteens, but closed its eyes and ignored the reality, and wrote a false report to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China – “Report on Rural Public Canteens”
Powerful political thought work tames people, news blackouts make them dumb. The “Xinyang Incident” in which millions of people starved to death and the “Tongwei Problem” in which one-third of the population starved to death were not only unknown to the neighboring areas at the time, but were even strictly kept secret decades later.
The dead obviously died of starvation, but it was said that they died of old age or disease, and the abnormal death was said to be a normal death. In some places, family members of the deceased are not allowed to mourn and mourn, and are not allowed to bury graves. Letters reporting the situation of the dead are withheld, and even the letter-writers are punished; “”Because they are afraid of making mistakes, of being punished, and of taking off their hats, they dare not reveal the real situation; the more they dare not expose, the bigger the problem will develop; “
The absurd thing that a Shanghai nursing home puts a living person into a body bag and asks the funeral home to be cremated has happened more than once in history
Zhou Yi, deputy secretary-general of the Provincial Party Committee, saw many patients with severe swelling during his inspection in Ya’an, and asked them why they didn’t go to the hospital for treatment. They said: The conditions in the hospital are very bad, and they die faster there. The Swelling Disease Hospital in the Wuxing Management District of Jintang County was converted from a cowshed. The sanitation was not done thoroughly, and the stench was unpleasant. There are no doors and no walls around the wards. 90% of the patients sleep on the floor with very thin grass. Some patients have no quilts and complain of cold during the day. Huang, director of Jinyu Commune Hospital in Guanghan County, put the living people into coffins and buried them.
Li Fangping, a member of Qingping Commune in Wenjiang, was dying of hunger. The county party inspection team came down to inspect his life. The district cadres were afraid that he would leak the news, so they locked him in a storage room for three days. The production team leader reported that Li was dead. He buried the counting ball.” Zhang Shaochun, a member of the commune, collapsed on the field from starvation. The team leader thought he was dead, so he quickly dug a hole to bury him. Halfway through the burial, Zhang woke up and yelled, “People were buried alive…”, so scared that the team leader threw away The hoe runs away.
Some areas stipulate “four prohibitions” after the dead: first, no shallow burial, but three feet deep, with crops planted on it; second, no crying; third, no burial by the roadside; fourth, no wearing mourning. What’s worse is that the Zhangwan Team of Huangwan Commune stipulates that dead people are not only forbidden to wear white cloth, but also ordered to wear red!
After Ren Wenhou, a migrant worker in his twenties, was beaten to death, the reservoir sent people to take the body directly to the family’s cemetery for burial.
Similarly, in order to cope with the inspection by the superiors, how the bureaucratic organization staged a conspiracy farce is exactly the same.
In order to cope with the inspection by the superiors, most of the manpower, animal power, and fertilizer were transferred to both sides of the road and railway, and to the junction of communes and communes, counties and counties, to make a show, but a large area of land was abandoned inside.
Wherever the foreign guests went, there was a scene of abundance and wealth: there were beautifully dressed women rowing and singing leisurely in the lake, and there were plenty of food in the small shops by the roadside. The provincial party committee has delineated the places where foreign guests can go, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter, and deliberately set up false appearances to deceive foreign guests.
On December 9, 1959, I was transferred to Suji Commune in Hezheng County. The people here have no food to eat, they are starved to emaciation, swollen, and some die of cold and hunger. The bark of the elms was stripped and eaten! One day the county called and said that Vice Governor Zhang Pengtu was going to Kangle for inspection, and ordered us to organize people overnight to cut down all the stripped elm trees on both sides of the road and transport them to a hidden place. People are starving to death, how can they have the strength to cut down and lift trees? We couldn’t do it, so we left the elm tree just for Vice Governor Zhang Pengtu to see.
And the way of being quarantined and locked up in the shelter is also a familiar taste
In some places, the pumpkin seedlings from the commune members’ private plots were pulled out and planted in the collective fields, and all of them died in the end. Occupying the house, forcing people to move, and throwing things outside forcibly if they don’t move. Forcibly confiscating the cooking pots of each family, and even smashing the pots in front of the members, even if the old man asked to leave a pot to boil water. In order to run a farm, the Datong Bridge Brigade took advantage of the opportunity for the commune members to go to the field to produce, and threw out all the belongings of the members of a small village at the east end of Datong Bridge, and the house was occupied by the brigade. Members were homeless and crying bitterly.
In June 1960, in the 31 villages of the Qiaoshan brigade, Mei, the secretary of the general branch, forced the masses to merge into six villages within half a day, and demolished more than 300 houses. Don’t work and don’t give food. It is said to be a new village, but in fact the old houses were demolished and the new ones were not built. The members were homeless, and more than 100 people were forced to live together. There were 14 households with 40 people living in 3 connected houses, and the gates were locked at night. The militia guarded the door with sticks, peeing and shitting together.
Lack of firewood in canteens is also a common problem. One way to solve the shortage of firewood is to cut down trees, and the other is to demolish houses. More than 80% of the trees in the county were cut down, and more than 100,000 houses in the county were collapsed or stripped. In some places, graves were dug and coffins split for firewood. After splitting the coffin in the field, there are pieces of bones left, which is frightening.
Reflection on the Great Famine is also worthy of our serious consideration of this epidemic prevention farce
This is an unprecedented tragedy in human history. In a year with a normal climate, there is no war or plague, but tens of millions of people die of hunger, but there is a large-scale “human cannibalism”, which is unique in human history.
The general line, the Great Leap Forward, and the People’s Commune were collectively called the “Three Red Flags” at that time. This was the political banner that made the Chinese people fanatical in 1958, and it was the direct cause of the three-year famine, which was also the root cause of the famine.
Indeed, the root cause of the starvation of tens of millions of people in China is the totalitarian system. Of course, I am not saying that the totalitarian system will inevitably cause such a large-scale death, but that the totalitarian system is the most likely to cause major policy mistakes, and once major policy mistakes occur, it is difficult to correct them. More importantly, under this system, the government monopolizes all production and living resources. After a disaster occurs, ordinary people have no ability to save themselves and can only sit and wait for death.
Why is there no error correction mechanism? This is an inherent flaw in authoritarian systems. The mistakes in the guiding ideology in 1958 were not just the mistakes of the leaders and leading groups, but systemic mistakes.
This is how the power system degrades national character. During the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, people were so crazy and cruel, which is the result of the degeneration of national character, and it is also the “achievements” of the totalitarian system.
There is an old saying in China: “What is good at the top will be worse at the bottom.” This is what happens when lower-level officials cater to their superiors in an autocratic system. The same was true in 1958. Officials on the ladder of power always push the will of the highest level to the extreme step by step.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Mao Zedong did not look for the cause of the famine from the aspects of system, policy, and guiding ideology, but blamed the large number of deaths on the landlords, rich, counter-revolutionaries, bad actors, and rightists who had already been sent to the 18th hell. It is said that because “the democratic revolution is not thorough”, the class enemies usurped the leadership at the grassroots level. This is obviously contrary to the facts.
book list
The following are history books that I personally recommend. After three years of anti-epidemic farce, reading these historical books again combined with your own personal experience will give you the illusion of being in history, as if you are living in the gap between history and reality. These historical events are not far away, engraved in our minds as clearly as yesterday.
| author | book title |
|---|---|
| Xu Ben | For what reason do people remember |
| Zhou Xueguang | The Institutional Logic of Chinese State Governance: An Organizational Study |
| Xie Yue | The political logic of maintaining stability |
| Xiao Shu | Heralds of History: The Promise of Half a Century Ago |
| Zhao Ziyang | Reform process |
| Xu Zhongyue | Modern Chinese History |
| Gao Hua | Identity and Difference: Political Stratification in Chinese Society, 1949-1965 |
| Gao Hua | At the historic Fengling Ferry |
| Gao Hua | historical notes |
| Yang Jisheng | Heaven and Earth Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution |
| Yang Jisheng | Political Struggles in China’s Reform Era |
| Yang Jisheng | Analysis of Social Classes in Contemporary China |
| Yang Jisheng | Tombstone: The Great Famine in China in the 1960s |
| Cheng Shi Shanchuan etc. | Cultural Revolution Jokes Collection |
| [US] Vogel | Deng Xiaoping Era |
| 【US】Henry Kissinger | world order |
| 【US】Henry Kissinger | On China |
| 【English】George Orwell | 1984 |
| 【US】Kong Feili | Soul Call: The Great Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 |
| 【US】Barbara Demick | We Are the Happiest: The Real Life of the North Korean People |
| [Czech Republic] Havel | havel anthology |
| 【Czech Republic】Ivan Klima | spirit of prague |
| 【Belarus】S.A. Alexievich | Chernobyl’s Sorrow |
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