Toward the end of the book, after enduring decades of arbitrary imprisonment for the crime of having been employed by Shell, Nien Cheng remarked that the Cultural Revolution was secular atonement for sin.
Posted on 07/06/2020 6:09:02 AM PDT by C19fan
After leaving China for America two decades ago, my father only returned to his homeland once. I had turned 18, and I think he wanted to show me something of his youth, of which he spoke little. In the dusty village where he grew up, we met an endless stream of old men who wanted to see the village’s prodigal son. Gifts were offered and extravagant greetings were swapped. Then, after each visitor had departed, my father would tell me, matter-of-factly, what they did to him during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The harmless-looking retired cadre, now an amiable old man who pinched my cheeks, had been the village party secretary who forced my father to perform manual labour — running after cows with a basket to pick up the droppings — because, as the son of a landlord, he could not be trusted with an education. The local businessman, now on his second wife and third Audi, had belonged to a gang of high school children who beat him for being descended from counter-revolutionaries.
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It feels like Chinese are different - no conscience
I have felt this way from day one.
It is the exact same dynamic.
And for the same reasons.
Toward the end of the book, after enduring decades of arbitrary imprisonment for the crime of having been employed by Shell, Nien Cheng remarked that the Cultural Revolution was secular atonement for sin.
“It feels like Chinese are different - no conscience”
I don’t see that. In fact, it may end up being worse here. The fuel of a hopelessly biased media, and the permanent victimhood status of blacks could make things very bloody here.
I can envision a day when they drag me out of my house to give it to a more deserving black person. Of course, that wouldn’t be a non violent event.
I don’t see that
I agree with you. Some/many/most in BLM would take a real joy in killing whites.
An interesting article, and a new website for me.
I knew a Chinese woman who was denounced by her neighbors during the Cultural Revolution, because one of them found out she owned a pair of silk stockings. They continued to be neighbors and colleagues many years later, and seemed pleasant enough in their relations.
I wondered, to her daughter, why she didn’t hate the neighbor who ratted her out for this ridiculous “crime?” The common sense answer was - what purpose would that serve? They will still have to live next to each other.
The BLM/Antifa "revolution" on the other hand is top down, it is mostly urban and suburban liberal intellectuals raising an army of inner-city minorities. The problem for them is that outside the major cities, their "revolution" has little to no support. It was far, far easier for Mao to march an army of rural peasants to besiege the cities than it would be for an army of BLM to march OUT of the cities and try to conquer the vast swaths of flyover country. Not to mention we have something Mao couldn't have dreamed of, a heavily armed populace in flyover country. It was estimated that in pre revolution China there was less than 1 gun for every 1,000 citizens. In the US with 320 million people and 600 million guns, it's more like 2 guns for every 1 person.
Comparison: China’s ‘Cultural Revolution’ Versus the U.S. Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3efopDHZ6mw&feature=share
Extremely good article to give enlightenment to our present situation. Wow...
You are correct. They can NOT control the rural areas here. It is going to be very different. In the cities, as someone wrote, they are the “...roaring lion.” In the countryside, they will be the “gazelle”.
IMO the situation in the US bears more similarity with South Africa than with China.
Your first paragraph, sorry that is not the case. Mao’s Cultural Revolution was fomented among urban students. Rural peasants were not Mao’s problem, beside the fact that they couldn’t even read Mao’s little Red Book.
Mao turned the students first on their teachers. Ever hear of Evergreen College?
In 1910, who could have believed that in 30 years, Germans would be shoveling people into ovens and mass graves by the trainload?
As Thomas Sowell said in “Black Rednecks and White Liberals”, “If it can happen in Germany, it can happen anywhere.”
The best description of what it was like to live in and through Mao’s Revolution is by Cixin Liu in his “Three Body Problem”.
America’s cultural “revolution” does have similarities to Mao’s disasterous spasm. Academia has been purged of free thought and free speech. The Media has been long controlled Overt unpunished violence is occurring where the Marxists already control local government and law enforcement. The judiciary has been compromised so that Federal law is not enforced. Privlidged white children are enjoying their spasms of lunacy. The meanest Red Guards were the children of communists and communist wannabes. Mao of course had full control of China’s security apparatus. In fact it was only when he sensed the army was about to intervene against the nonsense, that he backed off.
The cultural revolution weakened China. Many of its best people left or were killed. The communist party became even more corrupt as the “red guards” become apparatchiks. Mao’s disasterous “one child” only policy weakened the army. Any military campaign that results in the loss of these “little emperors”, the only sons, results in political backlash and is a threat to the communists. America is not yet lost. Trump is still President and despite all, there is still to be a national election where the people can, if they are willing, reclaim their rights and preserve their nation.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
https://youtu.be/GAGgXz_N98U
I think he said it was banned in China. It has English subtitles.
Here’s a 2 minute video of some highlights of China’s Cultural Revolution: https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/1279333171528687616
It feels like Chinese are different - no conscience
Wait....are you saying that the murderous, ruthless thugs running loose in this country have a conscience? As opposed to the ChiComs not having one?
Just trying to understand your comment.
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