Sinobabble: A Podcast about Modern Chinese History
New Books in Chinese Studies
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The Messiness of Life in China
I think something that, especially people who are interested in politics and news is that the PRC is not very old. The CCP just turned a hundred a couple of years ago. I don't think it's an outdated term to say Mao Zedong was 80% correct and 20% wrong. And so China sees that China's watching at all times. It has very, if there's one thing that it's always paying attention to on its own and other countries, histories, right? So they're afraid learning from 1966 project would be like, oh, actually, we had exactly same cultural revolution which was quite bad. But you can find what we can find with family politics or political life
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