A retired official from Hainan Province, China, reportedly wrote a book to rehabilitate the case of Qin Hui, the Song Dynasty chancellor who is said to have killed the famous general Yue Fei, but was officially demoted and the book confiscated.
Deng Guanghua, a former Hainan “hall official”. (taken from microblogging)
Ming Pao said in a report on the 21st, the retired department official is Deng Guanghua, 67 years old, Hainan Ding’an native, was the director of the Social Insurance Bureau of Hainan Province, deputy director and inspector of the provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security.
The newspaper said that in addition to his official position, Deng Guanghua is also the honorary president of the Association of Couplets of Hainan Province and a member of the Writers’ Association of Hainan Province, and is the author of such books as “Guanmianji”, “Wu Kedao’s Biography” and “Qin Xi’s Great Biography”.
The newspaper quoted the news from the self-publishing media “Economics Blackboard” and “Gaozhiji”, which revealed that “The Great Biography of Qin Jun” was considered a harmful book with a reactionary view of history, and Deng Guanghua was therefore punished by the authorities and downgraded from departmental to divisional level.
However, the disciplinary action was not officially documented, but only verbally announced.
According to the report, Deng Guanghua’s Qin Jun was “an outstanding politician, thinker, strategist, diplomat, literary scholar, calligrapher, and true sage of the Southern Song Dynasty,” and praised him for his “outstanding contribution to benefiting the people and ending the war.
The newspaper pointed out that the biography of Qin Jun was published last year by the Hong Kong Tianma Publishing House; Deng Guanghua explained in the book’s “afterword” the purpose and process of writing, saying that “through more than 40 years of in-depth research into historical materials Qin Jun, that someone will Qin Jun cast iron kneeling statue to Yue Fei ‘thank you ‘ is the biggest fallacy in ancient and modern times, the biggest injustice; is the sadness of the legal system, the sadness of justice”.
The newspaper reported that Deng Guanghua’s writer friend, Shi Yusheng, revealed that Deng Guanghua’s book was reported to the Ministry of Propaganda’s National Working Group Office for “Combating Pornography and Illegality” a few months after it was published.
Shi Yusheng said, “the leadership of Hainan Province, discipline inspection and fight against illegal departments involved in finding Deng Guanghua to investigate the matter, while strictly pursuing the issued books, book by book to retrieve, and even used public security units to collect the books.”
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