Tag Archives: Cultural Revolution

Rightist Memoir XXIX: Guarding Crops, Meeting Peasants

Posted on 06/23/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Guarding the Crops For some years,  I hadn’t  known whether the peasants were very hungry or if they were very poor. Once the peasants returned to normal life after being released from the tense personal relationships caused by  class struggle, … Continue reading →

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Rightist Memoir XXVIII: The Latter Period of the Chinese Communist Dictatorship

Posted on 06/21/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Chapter Eleven  The Latter Period of the Chinese Communist Dictatorship The elimination at the outset of all opposing forces meant that when the bloody twenty-eight year long rule of the demon king Mao came to an end a force that … Continue reading →

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2013：Ai Xiaoming — Uncensored Interview with Gan Cui on Martyred Poet Lin Zhao, including Deleted Xinjiang Labor Camp Experiences of Gan Cui

Posted on 05/13/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

After I posted my translation of Ai Xiaoming‘s long 2013 interview with Gan Cui 2013 Ai Xiaoming: Martyred Poet Lin Zhao and Gan Cui, Ai Xiaoming saw it and her editor Yi Mei contacted me to pass along the uncensored version … Continue reading →

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2013 Ai Xiaoming: Martyred Poet Lin Zhao and Gan Cui

Posted on 04/30/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Below I have translated a love story — the story of martyred poet Lin Zhao and two-decades-long ‘prisoner of Mao’ Gan Cui written by Ai Xiaoming on the basis of her 2013 interview with Gan Cui. Retired Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) … Continue reading →

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2011: Excerpt from Geling Yan’s “The Criminal Lu Yanshi”

Posted on 04/20/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Where does history end and literature begin? That is the question I often have about contemporary Chinese literature. Today this question came up again as I read the brief excerpt (which I translated below, further down below that I expected … Continue reading →

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1966: Gao Yaojie Confronts the Cultural Revolution

Posted on 12/11/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

The late Dr. Gao Yaojie‘s bravery didn’t begin with the fight against HIV/AIDS among the rural poor in Henan Province in the 1990s where she outraged the local authorities by exposing their crimes. Dr. Gao told me she had stood … Continue reading →

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1970s Wiki: Listening to Enemy Broadcasts in China

Posted on 10/03/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Translation of the Chinese language Wikipedia article on Enemy Radio Stations 敵臺 Chinese language Wikipedia articles are naturally often more comprehensive on Chinese topics and include different perspectives. Another Chinese language Wikipedia article translated on this blog: PRC Spies in … Continue reading →

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2023 Bumingbai: Song Yongyi on PRC Personality Cults Past and Present

Posted on 07/17/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Another illuminating Bumingbai podcast episode, this time on Xi Jinping’s design of a personality cult for the uncharismatic with Chinese-American Cultural Revolution historian Song Yingyi of the University of California. Song sees a personality cult as a necessary weapon of … Continue reading →

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2016: Cadre Housing Courtyard Culture and the Rise of the Red Guards

Posted on 07/12/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here Mi Hedou offers a sociological analysis of cadre youth culture that grew in the housing compounds among the children of senior Beijing Party and government cadres as they attended elite schools together. This youth culture produced the Red Guard … Continue reading →

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2023: The Tragic Fate of the Young Historian Shen Yuan

Posted on 04/15/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Shen Yuan was one of the “ten authorities in history” “历史学界十大权威” during the Cultural Revolution who must be defeated. This article from Yibao website makes me think about the campaign over the past several years against “historical nihilism” a label … Continue reading →

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