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04.16.18

Has Xi Jinping Changed China? Not Really

Teng Biao

Xi Jinping has had an eventful early spring. After he abolished presidential term limits and was unanimously elected—if it can be called an election—to serve another term in that post, Xi got the world’s attention again by holding a meeting with...

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09.04.13

The Confessions of a Reactionary

Teng Biao

This article first appeared in Life and Death in China (a multi-volume anthology of fifty-plus witness accounts of Chinese government persecution and thirty-plus essays by experts in human rights in China). When I wrote it [on the...

The NYRB China Archive
02.24.00

Divine Killer

Ian Buruma
from New York Review of Books

“If there was anything Mao wouldn’t want to see, it was tears. Mao said on one occasion, ‘I can’t bear to see poor people cry. When I see their tears, I can’t hold back my own.’
“Another thing which upset Mao was bloodshed.”

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