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Tag Archives: personality cult
2023: Mao at 130 — God or Dried Meat?
Two “Mao” translations for Mao’s 130th birthday: A CCTV 1, the general programming channel of the PRC state broadcaster (one of the 50 or so CCTV broadcast channels) newscast on December 26 reported on Mao Zedong’s 130th birthday. The report mentioned … Continue reading
Posted in History 历史, Ideology 思想, Media 媒体
Tagged 130, anniversary, birthday, CCTV, censorship, China, Comintern, Communism, Communist International, Communist Party, Comrade Mao Zedong, evaluation, Great Helmsman, historical decision, history, legacy, Mao, Mao Zedong, Maoism, media, Neo-Maoism, personality cult, politics, Stalin, 共产党, 中国
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2023 Bumingbai: Song Yongyi on PRC Personality Cults Past and Present
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
Posted in Cultural Revolution, Politics 政治
Tagged bumingbai, charisma, charismatic, China, Communist Party, cult of personality, Cultural Revolution, deng xiaoping, 邓小平, leader for life, leadership, leadership core, Mao Zedong, Marxism-Leninism, personality cult, podcast, politics, PRC, princeling, war, Xi Jinping, Xi Jinping Thought, 厚黑学, 中国, 习近平
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2008：Hu Yaobang: Bringing China Back to “Common Sense”
If this article were published today (it is still online in China) it might unleash a storm. It was written in 2008, several years before Xi Jinping became Party leader. Bear in mind that Party General Secretary Xi Jinping wants … Continue reading
Posted in History 历史, Ideology 思想, Politics 政治
Tagged China, Chinese, Communist Party, 胡耀邦, Hu Yaobang, personality cult, PRC, reform and opening, Wan Li, Xi Jinping, Zhao Ziyang, 共产党, 中国, 习近平
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2007: Red Flag and Preparing the Ideological Ground for the Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution can be thought of as Mao’s revolt against the Communist Party apparatus after Mao himself was marginalized after the famine and other disasters that followed the Great Leap Forward campaign that he initiated in the late 1950s. … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Revolution, History 历史, Ideology 思想, Politics 政治
Tagged Chairman Mao, Chen Boda, China, Chinese, Communist Party, cult of personality, Cultural Revolution, Guo Moruo, ideology, Lin Biao, Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong Thought, Marxism-Leninism, media, personality cult, politics, PRC, Red Flag, 共产党, 中国
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My Student Reported on Me!
我被学生举报了！ 原创： 凡人钒语 凡人钒语 [from qq public account https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Jv2haHKMbgxL81gRZhCtrQ ] A student reported me on Monday morning! We were discussing in class whether rich people or poor people made greater contributions to society. One girl got very angry, and spoke up, … Continue reading
Posted in Ideology 思想, Politics 政治, Society 社会
Tagged China, classroom, Communist Party, Cultural Revolution, 红卫兵, education, freedom, ideology, informant, informer, Mao, personality cult, PRC, speech, spy, thought, 共产党, 教育, 中国
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