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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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Kong Lingping II: My Days of Being Struggled Against and the Perversion of the Human Spirit

This is part two of my translation of Kong Lingping’s rightist memoir Blood Chronicle. Here Kong Lingping, a student in mechanical engineering at Chongqing University when the Anti-Rightist Campaign began, is persecuted because of his family background — his parents … Continue reading

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Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir I: “Blood Chronicle” By Long-time Prisoner of Mao Zedong

These first pages of Kong Lingping’s memoir describe Chongqing University at the outset of Mao’s Hundred Flowers campaign that aimed to persuade people to speak out freely. Kong Lingping’s 孔令平memoir was published in CD in Hong Kong and as a … Continue reading

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