The full text of Xi Jinping’s speech at the Party History Study and Education Conference on February 20 was published in the April 1 issue of the magazine “Seeking Truth”, followed by the Qingming Festival in Beijing, when the tomb of former General Secretary Zhao Ziyang was covered and blocked at every level, while the tomb of Jiang Qing, the head of the counter-revolutionary group, was opened to the public, with flowers piled up like a mountain and an endless stream of mourners chanting ” Mother” is the world spectacle.
On the contrary, the situation was the opposite in the “no-frills” Hu Jintao era. After Zhao Ziyang’s death in 2005, the Central Office proposed to place his ashes in the lowest-level columbarium in Babaoshan, but his family did not agree, so they have been placed in his home at No. 6 Fuqiang Hutong, where he was relegated. On the anniversary of his death and at the Qingming Festival, many people paid their respects, and although the roads were closed by public security, no forced interceptions were seen (most interceptions of visitors occurred after the 18th National Congress).
The prison was never left by Jiang Qing, who was granted medical parole in 1984, and was always housed in a small bungalow in Qincheng, where she was cleaned by the labor unit of the prison. Four days later, Jiang Qing’s body was cremated. Although her daughter Li Ne was not present, she kept the ashes at home.
Jiang Qing had a will that she would be buried in her hometown of Zhucheng in Shandong after her death. In 2002, with the approval of Jiang Zemin, Li Ne buried her ashes in Beijing Fotan Cemetery, without daring to leave her name as the person who erected the monument. The cemetery was discovered by pro-Maoists and has been in Hu Jintao’s decade. Every year, the Qingming Fotan Cemetery is heavily guarded and a big car is prepared to pull the mourners to the nearby police station for registration. It should be said that Hu Jintao is strictly in accordance with Deng Xiaoping’s “resolution of a number of historical issues since the founding of the country” act.
This year’s Qingming is the beginning of a big toss, and the content of “A Brief History of the Chinese Communist Party” approved by the CPC Central Committee on February 25, organized by the Central Propaganda Department, prepared by the Central Institute of Party History and Literature and other units, and published by the People’s Publishing House. Before the publication and distribution of this “Brief History”, the People’s Publishing House also published and distributed Xi Jinping’s book “On the History of the Chinese Communist Party” edited by the Central Institute of Party History and Literature. One before and one after is precisely the cause-and-effect relationship. The Xinhua News Agency reported that “During the preparation of the manuscript of A Brief History, leading comrades of the Central Committee made clear requests for drafting and revision work many times,” frankly stating this cause-and-effect relationship.
The Brief History consists of 10 chapters, 581 pages and about 280,000 words. According to a review by Xinhua News Agency, the Brief History “fully absorbs the latest achievements in Party history research and, in the form of a combination of history and theory, explains in depth why the CPC is ‘capable’, why Marxism is ‘feasible’ and why socialism with Chinese characteristics is ‘good’. The reasoning of why socialism with Chinese characteristics is ‘good'”. The language used is Xi Jinping’s style.
Downplaying Mao’s Crimes and Establishing Xi’s Authority
This century-old Brief History, which was produced under the guidance of “can”, “do”, and “good”, is called “the latest achievement in Party history research “It maintains the premise of Deng Xiaoping’s half-true and half-false historical resolution that 40 years ago “a civil unrest, wrongly started by the leaders and exploited by counter-revolutionary groups, brought serious disasters to the Party, the country and the people of all ethnic groups, and left extremely painful lessons”, and downplays Mao’s serious historical crimes The Cultural Revolution has been diluted to the point that it is no longer a separate chapter.
In 2001, Jiang Zemin’s brief history of the Communist Party’s 80-year history lists “the internal turmoil of the Cultural Revolution” as chapter 7, describing the breaking of the Four Olds, the raids and beatings of people, the seizure of power by the rebels, the burning of the British representative office, the Lin Biao incident, and many other internal turmoils that undermined the rule of law, while Xi’s “Brief History” reduces this to one page. The remaining 13 pages completely reject the conclusions that “personal arbitrariness and the cult of the individual within the Party gradually grew” and that “Mao Zedong (was) mainly responsible for the Cultural Revolution” and describe more about “the important progress made in various tasks despite the difficulties,” including a number of transportation projects. Important progress was made despite the difficulties”, including the completion of a number of transportation lines and oil pipeline facilities, the independent development of the “two bombs and one star”, and the opening of new horizons in foreign affairs. The decade of the Cultural Revolution is included in Chapter 6, “Exploration and Tortuous Development of Socialist Construction,” in Part 3, “Socialist Construction Develops with Twists and Turns. The “three” of Mao Zedong, which Deng Xiaoping made a “thirty-seven” split, is still more merit than demerit in Xi Jinping’s eyes.
It is no wonder that Xi’s “A Brief History”, chapter 10, “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Enters a New Era”, which is the 8-year history of the Party after Xi Jinping came to power in the 18th Communist Party Congress, is 146 pages long, accounting for about 1/4 of the book. if 8 years are used to reverse the 40 years of reform and opening up and revert to the Mao era, the ratio is not absurd.
On April 11, the Central Office issued a notice on organizing a mass propaganda and education campaign on the theme of “Always Follow the Party” to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, which means that all people should study the 100-year “Brief History”. The Ministry of Education recently formulated a list of extracurricular reading materials to prevent problematic reading materials from entering schools, and made it clear that “jokes” about the Party’s history, national history and military history cannot be read in schools. The State Film Bureau of China recently issued a notice on the exhibition and broadcast of outstanding films to celebrate the centennial of the Communist Party of China. 100 films will be re-released between April and December, including red classics from the Cultural Revolution. The opera “White Maiden” and the ballet “The Red Army of the Maiden”, which Jiang Qing presided over, will also be rehearsed.
Chen Guoduo, who set up the concentration camps for millions of people in Xinjiang and triggered the West’s joint sanctions against Xinjiang cotton, has recently been hit by a mine disaster in the town of Feng Yuan in Quergou, Hutubi County, Xinjiang, but his position is not only unshaken, but he has also ordered the Xinjiang District Court to accept the case of Xinjiang enterprises against the “anti-China scholar” and German Zheng Guo’en in a dispute over his right to reputation, no doubt adding fuel to China’s human rights problems. This undoubtedly adds fuel to the fire of China’s human rights problems. Party media commented that this “shows that Chen Guoduo is ‘special’ in a way that is not normal”. Behind this “specialness” is a reflection of Xi Jinping’s approach to employing people. Xi’s “Brief History” was an important preparation for the ideological and organizational line of the 20th Communist Party Congress, and its importance can be contrasted with Hu Yaobang’s non-Maoist campaign to vindicate wrongdoings, initiate discussions on truth standards, and prepare ideologically and cadres for reform and opening up.
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