Category Archives: history

WikiLeaks: Soldier ‘Tricked’ Into Firing on Tiananmen Protesters

Posted on September 2, 2011 by ML

TUCKED AWAY IN WikiLeaks' trove of a quarter million unredacted U.S. State Department cables released in the past few days is a harrowing, grisly anecdote of a Chinese PLA (People's Liberation Army) soldier who says he was "tricked" into firing … Continue reading →

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Chinese Communist Party – Not Much Change From Yan’an to Now

Posted on January 8, 2011 by MPR

There is a fascinating cable about Xi Jinping that I latterly caught, talking about his personal characteristics, his upbringing, his views of the Party and the New China. People ought to read it. In doing that myself, what stood out were the … Continue reading →

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China Heritage Quarterly 24: Within, a Gem from Liu Ts’un-Yan

Posted on January 3, 2011 by MPR

The new China Heritage Quarterly, a journal edited by Geremie Barmé from the Australian National University, has been out for a while now (since Dec. 22). Its content is always rich, and the editor never troubles himself with demotic appeal. … Continue reading →

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