Changing faces of Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping for sale on the streets of China
This year is the so-called 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and after Xi Jinping’s call for all people to learn the history of the Party and develop a “correct view of Party history,” a new 2021 edition of the “Brief History of the Communist Party of China” (CPC History) has been officially released as the designated study material. Xi Jinping’s rule accounts for a quarter of the content, while the Cultural Revolution and the sins of Mao Zedong are also downplayed.
The pro-Beijing Hong Kong media today (12) published an article about the content of the new Party History.
According to the article, the new version of the party history consists of 10 chapters, highlighting the history of the party since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, that is, since the reign of Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, with a total of 146 pages, accounting for about a quarter of the book.
In addition to Xi’s China Dream slogan, the book also covers the promotion of the “five-in-one” and “four-comprehensive” layout, the modernization of the national defense and military, and the so-called “great power diplomacy with Chinese characteristics,” which has been called a rogue diplomacy by outsiders. “The report was published in 2001.
It is said that, compared with the history of the Communist Party of China published in 2001, which was originally called the “civil unrest” of the Cultural Revolution as a separate chapter 7, the new version of the Party history will include this history in the third part of chapter 6, “Exploration and tortuous development of socialist construction” The new version of the Party History includes this history in the third part of Chapter 6, “Exploration and Tortuous Development of Socialist Construction”, which is 13 pages long and no longer a separate chapter.
In addition, the errors of Mao Zedong are downplayed, and the reasons for the Cultural Revolution mentioned in the old edition are: “But his wrong estimation of the political situation of the Party and the country had developed to a very serious extent by this time, and he believed that revisionism had emerged from the Party Central Committee”, “the phenomenon of personal autocracy and cult of the individual within the Party gradually grew. “, “Mao Zedong (for the Cultural Revolution) was mainly responsible for”, all removed.
In the book, Mao is revered as “a leader of the ruling proletarian party” who constantly observed and thought about emerging issues, was extremely concerned about the consolidation of power, was highly alert to the danger of capitalist restoration, and “engaged in constant exploration and unremitting struggle to eliminate corruption and privileges and bureaucracy in the Party and government “, referring only to Mao’s “unclear understanding of the laws of the construction and development of socialist society and the accumulation of leftist errors in theory and practice, many correct ideas about socialist construction were not implemented, which eventually led to civil unrest.”
In addition, compared with the old edition, which described the civil unrest such as the “breaking of the Four Olds”, the raids and beatings, the seizure of power by the rebels, and the Lin Biao incident, the new edition is briefly sketched in one page, and significantly increases the achievements in economy, national defense, science and technology, and diplomacy during the Cultural Revolution, using seven pages.
However, the new version of the party history still maintains the historical resolution of the CPC, saying that the Cultural Revolution was not a revolution or social progress in any sense of the word, and that it was “a civil unrest that was wrongly launched by the leaders and exploited by counter-revolutionary groups, bringing serious disasters to the Party, the country and the people of all ethnic groups.
The Twitter account “Chen Tang Guan” posted: “Look! In this new brief history of the devil in the Communist Party, Xi takes up a quarter of it, becoming a monarch, and singing the praises of Mao. The devil Mao launched the heinous crime of the Cultural Revolution is said to be just because the eyesight is not clear, there is something wrong. This Xi is really hopeless!”
Qualitative Cultural Revolution Xi Jinping is farther from the truth than Deng Xiaoping
According to public sources, the Cultural Revolution began on May 16, 1966, when Mao Zedong, then chairman of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, and the Central Cultural Revolutionary Group mobilized thousands of “Red Guards” from the top down to launch a campaign on all fronts in mainland China. Officials encouraged criticism, house raids, and denunciations, which led to a decline in traditional Chinese culture and morality, a severe impact on the overall economy, and the destruction of tens of millions of victims, as well as a large number of cultural relics during the “destruction of the Four Olds. The campaign lasted for ten years and is therefore known as the “Ten Years of Unrest” or “Ten Years of Catastrophe”.
As we all know, it was in fact the internal struggle between the two sides in Zhongnanhai that led to the Cultural Revolution, which was characterized by the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1981 as “a civil unrest that was wrongly started by the leaders and exploited by counter-revolutionary groups, bringing serious disasters to the Party, the country and the people of all races. However, the CCP still does not dare to admit that this was a campaign launched by Mao Zedong to eradicate dissident forces within the Party.
According to the CCP, the campaign was used by counterrevolutionary groups. But observers believe that the so-called counter-revolutionary group refers to Mao’s deputy Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, including Mao’s wife Jiang Qing, who used Mao to eliminate dissidents rather than Mao Zedong.
Deng Xiaoping characterized Mao’s sins as “more merit than demerit,” downplaying the insane campaign that caused the collapse of Chinese society and the death of millions of innocent people, while Xi Jinping went even further after coming to power, saying in 2013 that the last 30 years should not be used to negate the first 30 years, nor should the first 30 years be used to negate the second 30 years, confusing the two periods before and after the reform. The two eras are confused. Until now, it is still forbidden to talk about the Cultural Revolution. The authorities are now launching a new party history, and the new descriptions of the Cultural Revolution and Mao are a cause for concern.
Xi has repeatedly emphasized the fight against historical nihilism.
On February 20 this year, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping called for “correct understanding and scientific evaluation of major events, meetings and figures in the history of the Party” at the “mobilization meeting for learning and education on Party history”.
The official media Xinhua News Agency said Xi Jinping has repeatedly stressed his opposition to historical nihilism.
In response, the French broadcaster published a commentary, saying that since Xi Jinping proposed to oppose historical nihilism, many netizens have asked the first question: Does the history of the CPC stand up to the test of history?
For example, the article insists that “the Chinese Communist Party played a pivotal role in the national war of resistance”, but does not mention the historical fact that millions of regular troops of the Kuomintang bore the burden of the frontal battlefield, and only senior generals died more than 100 people, while the Chinese Communist army built up its strength in the rear, such as Yan’an, and only engaged in sporadic guerrilla warfare, and only two generals died in battle. Not a single word is mentioned.
There are many questions about the account of the CCP’s history both at home and abroad. Several major historical events that occurred after the establishment of the CCP, such as the famine in the early 1960s, have been described by the CCP authorities as the “three-year period of natural disasters” and later as the “three-year period of difficulties,” but researchers point out that that Mao Zedong launched the “Great Leap Forward” in 1958 to “catch up with Britain and surpass the United States,” with everyone making steel and eating big pots of rice, causing the fields to be abandoned.
Regarding the number of people who died in the disaster, American demographer Judith Bannister, in her 1987 book “China’s Changing Population,” estimated the number of unnatural deaths to be around 30 million. And former Xinhua correspondent Yang Jijian pointed out in his book “Tombstone” that China starved 36 million people to death during the so-called “three years of natural disasters. The Chinese Communist Party has no intention of restoring the historical truth, and Tombstone was published in Hong Kong in December 2008 and has been reprinted several times since then, continuing to sell well, but it is still a banned book in China.
Netizens are quoted by the French broadcaster as asking, “Who exactly is engaging in nihilism, you know.
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