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Monthly Archives: April 2022
PRC Foreign Ministry Spokesman AI Software Emulator
A sense of humor can go a long way towards smoothing the contradictions that Chairman Mao noted are the driving force of History. While smoothing contradictions (as opposed to a Trotskyite accentuation of contradictions) may appear reactionary, it has some … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Relations 外交, Media 媒体, Science, Technology and Academic 科技学术
Tagged AI, Biden, China, expert system, foreign ministry, Jen Psaki, PRC, Putin, spokesperson, White House
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Lin Zhibo: The Russia-Ukraine Conflict and China’s Position
Professor Julian Ku of Hofstra University Law School mentioned this article on his Twitter account. A startling argument, I imagine by the same reasoning China should have surrendered to Japan when attacked in the 1930s and the Chinese people shouldn’t … Continue reading
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
Posted in "Blood Chronicle" -- A Rightist Memoir, Cultural Revolution, History 历史, Literature 文学, Politics 政治
Tagged abuse, accident, Blood Chronicles, China, Communist Party, concentration camp, construction, Cultural Revolution, 盐源, death, demonstration, 血纪, farm, Great Leap Forward, Kong Lingping, Liangshan, Mao Zedong, memoir, Oil Depot Bend, Petofi, poet, PRC, prisoner, punishment, reform through labor, rightist, road building, Sandor Petofi, Sichuan, Yanyuan, 共产党, 凉山, 劳改, 右派, 四川, 孔令平, 政治, 政治犯, 毛泽东, 中国, 人权
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2022 Shanghai Lockdown Banned Protest Article: “The Patience of the People of Shanghai Has Reached its Limit”
[Radio France International’s Chinese language service discussed this and other reports on the fallout from the strict Shanghai covid closures in an April 17th article. Read it with Google Translate. ] Shanghai People’s Patience has Reached Its Limit Original 普通市民 … Continue reading
Posted in COVID and Wuhan Diary Diary, Health 健康
Tagged CDC, censored, Chinese, Communist Party, coronavirus, COVID, Covid 19, epidemic, isolation, lockdown, pandemic, politics, PRC, protest, Shanghai, 上海, 中国
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Rightist Memoir XXV: Prisoners’ Samzidat Publication “The Torch”
From Kong Lingping’s rightist memoir of his twenty-two years in Chinese prison camps and subsequent political rehabilitation. In this chapter, prisoners circulate a handwritten samzidat publication within the camp, the camp authorities, aided by several informers investigate. A ringleader is … Continue reading
Posted in "Blood Chronicle" -- A Rightist Memoir, Cultural Revolution, History 历史, Literature 文学, Media 媒体, Politics 政治
Tagged China, Communist Party, Cultural Revolution, dissident, execution, human rights, intellectual, Kong Lingping, Mao Zedong, memoir, PRC, prison, publication, rightist, samzidat, Sichuan, Yanyuan
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Rightist Memoir XXIV: Two Deaths
Here is another excerpt from Kong Lingping’s memoir Bloody Chronicles 血纪 which I continue translating. I knew Kong Lingping while serving at the U.S. Consulate General in Chengdu during 2007 – 2012. He used to call me up every so … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Cultural Revolution, 知青, execution, human rights, Mao Zedong, memoir, persecution, political prisoner, politics, PRC, rightist, sent down youth, thought crime, youth sent down to the countryside, 反革命, 右派, 文革, 死刑, 下方‘, 下方青年
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Kong Lingping’s Maoist Labor Camp Memoir XXIII: A Decade Spent Between Life and Death
Old Photographs 【老照片】 is a very popular series of books published in China since the mid 1990s (now publishing volume No. 118!) filled with pictures and short accounts of both family and public lived history from the late 19th century onwards … Continue reading
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Tagged Bai Juyi, China, Cultural Revolution, 白居易, 红卫兵, Du Fu, exile, 老照片, history, Kong Lingping, memoir, middle school, mother, Old Photos, photo, photography, poem, political prisoner, prisoner, Red Guard, rightist, Yanyuan, 历史, 右派, 摄影, 政治犯, 文化大革命, 杜甫, 毛泽东, 中国
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COVID Joke Collections
In “ancient times” Chinese emperors would ask that the sayings of the people be collected by officials and reported to the central dynastic authorities so that they would better understand the feelings of the people. This tradition continues today in … Continue reading
Rightist Memoir XXII: A Model Communist Murders His Wife
You can read the first thirty pages of my translation of Kong Lingping’s Blood Chronicle and links to previously posted installments of Kong’s memoir Blood Chronicles 血纪. Previous installment: Rightist Memoir XXI: The Privileged 8.3.3 The Model Communist Zhang Jianbo In 1969, a discipline and … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, Chinese, Communist Party, crime, Cultural Revolution, 盐源, 监狱, 血纪, History 历史, human rights, Kong Lingping, Mao Zedong, memoir, murder, political prisoner, politics, rightist, Yanyuan, 共产党, 冤假错案, 右派, 四川, 孔令平, 政治犯, 文革, 杀, 毛泽东, 人权
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Rightist Memoir XXI: The Privileged
You can read the first thirty pages of my translation of Kong Lingping’s Blood Chronicle and links to previously posted installments of Kong’s memoir Blood Chronicles 血纪 Previous installment: Rightist Memoir XX: Lin Biao’s Flight and Aftermath from Kong Lingping’s “Bloody Chronicles” 8.3 Privileged … Continue reading
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Tagged China, Chinese, Communist Party, Cultural Revolution, 盐源, 监狱, 血纪, human rights, Kong Lingping, love, Mao Zedong, memoir, political prisoner, rightist, sex, walnut, Yanyuan, 共产党, 冤假错案, 右派, 四川, 孔令平, 政治犯, 文革, 毛泽东, 人权
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高大伟 David Cowhig's Translation Blog 