DrALJONES, 2 months ago to Israel

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thejapantimes, 4 months ago to worldwithoutus

Chinese President Xi Jinping used a speech remembering Mao Zedong to push a framework the current leader rolled out recently to counter the West’s capitalist model. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/27/asia-pacific/politics/xi-alternative-capitalism-speech-mao/?utm_content=buffer522f2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #asiapacific #politics #xijinping #maozedong #china #us #capitalism

m10, 4 months ago to random Polish

Xi Jinping o Mao i marksizmie

Marksizm jest narzędziem modernizacji, w tym organizacji państwa na wzór leninowski, ale celem nie jest rewolucja światowa, tylko budowa silnego autorytarnego państwa, które pozwoli utrzymać i utrwalić władzę nowych elit Na pokolenia.

https://wp.me/p3fv0T-fUJ #Chiny #ChRL #KPCh #komunizm #reformy #NEP #urodziny #130 #MaoZedong #XiJinping #przemówienie #POLECANE

thejapantimes, 5 months ago to worldnews

China’s citizens are being forced to venerate jingoism in a new law on "patriotic education" that takes effect in 2024. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2023/12/18/world/china-patriotic-education-law/?utm_content=buffer48e54&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #commentary #worldnews #china #tibet #ccp #maozedong #nationalism #humanrights

thejapantimes, 5 months ago to worldwithoutus

The horrors of war make veterans in Taiwan more likely to cling to their Chinese identity, in contrast to the rest of mainstream Taiwanese society who have not been through armed conflict. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/14/asia-pacific/politics/taiwan-last-generation-china/?utm_content=buffer74d9e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #asiapacific #politics #china #taiwan #maozedong #chinesecivilwar

thejapantimes, 5 months ago to worldwithoutus

Chinese authorities have fanned hopes that an internal passport system that tethers people's destinies to their place of origin may be in its dying days, but concern over whether poorly resourced cities could cope is stifling reforms. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/07/asia-pacific/politics/china-mao-era-residence-rules/?utm_content=buffer957a5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #asiapacific #politics #china #maozedong

msquebanh, 6 months ago to journalism

#Guardian #journalist Tania Branigan’s #debut #book about #China ’s deadly #CulturalRevolution has won the US$75,000 #CundillHistoryPrize .

Branigan received the award for “Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution” at a gala in #Montreal on Wednesday evening.

Jurors describe the book as a “haunting” account of the #trauma endured by those who #survived #MaoZedong ’s power grab in the mid-20th century.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-tania-branigan-takes-home-cundill-history-prize-for-book-on-cultural

#AsianMastodon #ChineseCanadian

Mao Zedong "Miss Chao's Suicide" (1919) (www.marxists.org)

Another piece with fascinating context behind it.