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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

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2023 Tavrovsky: Xi and Changing China’s Unchanging Elites

This discussion of Xi father and son and Xi’s difficult task of changing Chinese elites seduced by the market economy and moving them back to the path of patriotism and ideological righteousness is by Russian journalist Yuri Tavrovsky. Yuri Vadimovich … Continue reading

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2022: Accused Japan-China Friendship “Spy” Hideji Suzuki Talks About His Torture and Imprisonment in China

Mainichi Shimbun in October – November 2022 published a four part series on the detention, torture and six year imprisonment of Hideji Suzuki who returned on Japan after completing his sentence in October 2023. Below are links to the Mainichi … Continue reading

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2023: Crisis in Chinese Local Government Finance — Prof. Victor Shih’s Chinese Language Podcast Interview

Chinese language podcasts and YouTube videos contain a wealth of information about China (among many other people and things in the universe). I’ve mentioned Taiwan’s Ghost Island Media podcasts Politically Sensitive Interviews with Activists, Students, Artist on China Today and YouTube … Continue reading

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