From Wang Shiwei to Liu Xiaobo: Prisoners of Literary Inquisition under Communist Rule in China
Wu Han (born Wu Chunhan, September 24, 1909 – October 11, 1969), a historian, educator, essayist, editor, political activist and government official, was targeted in the opening salvos of the Cultural Revolution when his historical drama Hai Rui Dismissed from Office was judged in 1965 to be “using the past to criticize the present.”He died after four years of persecution. Continue reading
No. 14 Yu ZHANG: No. 19 (1965): Wu Han, Victim of History已关闭评论
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By CHRIS BUCKLEY JUNE 12, 2014 4:41 AM
China’s president, Xi Jinping, belongs to the “sent-down” generation of urban youths assigned to labor in the countryside during the radical fervor of the Cultural Revolution, and while many of his peers rue that era as a lost decade, Continue reading
An Interview With Xi, Long Before He Was China’s Leader已关闭评论
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