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Rightist Memoir XXXIII: I Get a Job Teaching Math

Find other chapters listed at Kong Lingping’s Rightist Memoir I: “Blood Chronicle” By Long-time Prisoner of Mao Zedong The full Chinese text can be downloaded from bannedbook.org  Book Three Chapter III   I Teach for a While According to Chinese folk customs, the … Continue reading

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

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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2012: Symposium on Mi Hedu’s Red Guard Generation Book

Reading Chinese historians and writers on Chinese history and historiography brings revelations on many levels. Not just on history, but on difficulties in understanding history because of political and other restrictions and how the changing Party line affects understanding of … Continue reading

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2021: Teaching the Leadership of the Communist Party IV

This is the fourth and final installment in a series of translations of the one hundred page long October 2021 PRC Ministry of Education guidelines for Chinese teachers from elementary through high school on points to cover when teaching their … Continue reading

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2021: Teaching the Leadership of the Communist Party III

This is part 3 in a series of translations of the long document issued the the PRC Ministry of Education in October 2021 on how leadership of the Communist Party is to be taught in PRC schools from elementary school … Continue reading

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2021: Teaching “Leadership of the Communist Party” II

In this installment of the translation of the PRC Ministry of Education’s guidance on educating students at all levels: elementary, middle, high school and university on the “leadership of the Communist Party” the importance of upholding the core leadership to … Continue reading

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2021: Teaching “Leadership of the Communist Party” I

During my decade working in China reading materials meant for a Chinese audience was a great help in my work. Attending some meetings deemed international (if one foreigner was allowed to attend, it was classified as an international meeting) I … Continue reading

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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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