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From Mao to Now

Pekingology

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Lenonism and the Fang Sho Cycle in Chinese Politics

All those features are constant. None of those, i would argue, have ever gone away over the last 70 years. But depending on the leader and the times, their kind of intensity changes. Under more reformist periods, dungshell ping, jongsamin and hucin taw, we get a loosening of those instruments but they never disappear. It's just a kind of question of how strongly they are applied. So this is what the chinese actually call the fang sho cycle. The fang sho jo ch fang means to open. Show means to close, basically. And where dchinas do for a little fung puti mildly, but i'm not

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