Forty years ago, Nixon and Mao “changed the world.” But the press who covered that historic event had more important issues to address, like Walter Cronkite’s socks and Barbara Walter’s loneliness.
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The CCP has no idea how much they will miss this incarnation of the DL when he’s gone, because the 14th incarnation is their Arafat. 
In today’s China, it is government censorship which gives credibility to unsubstantiated rumors, and that turns rumors into news. 
Does singing “Red Songs” really mean a new revival of the old Party spirit? Or is it something that has been happening all along but makes for easy headlines with Bo Xilai’s recent Chongqing campaign and the CPC anniversary just around the corner? A Guest Post by Zhang Yajun. |
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On Sun Yatsen, 1912, and Han Han
Trusting Yuan Shikai to nourish a fragile young republican government was basically akin to dousing a three-year old in A1 Sauce and putting him in the care of a rabid honey badger, but the demise of the first republican experiment might not have been as inevitable as some believe.