Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium
Appendix V 有目共睹   As we observed in You Should Look Back, the introduction to Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium, the year 1979 was of outsized significance in the history of post-Mao China.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix XXIX 孤傲   Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium is the title of China Heritage Annual 2022. The series marks Xi Jinping’s first decade as China’s party-state-army leader.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix XXVIII 週而復始   In early March 2020, we published an interview with the Beijing sociologist Guo Yuhua 郭於華 under the title The Political Manipulation of People is More Toxic Than Any Virus.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix XXVII 謔   *** On 8 December 2022, The New York Times reported that: A day after China’s ruling Communist Party announced a broad rollback of the “zero Covid” restrictions that had smothered the economy and transformed life in the country, the propaganda apparatus on Thursday began the daunting task of promoting an audacious revision of history.… Read

Xi Jinping’s Empire of Tedium Appendix XXVI 囿   In May 2022, Li Yuan 袁莉, a noted New York Times columnist who focuses on the intersection of technology, business and politics in China and across Asia, started a weekly Chinese-language podcast titled Who Gets It — Searching for the Truth and Answers Together 不明白播客：一起探尋真理與答案.… Read

Jottings in New Sinology On 22 December 1972, the government of New Zealand cut off its decades-long diplomatic relationship with the Republic of China, which had been based on the island of Taiwan since 1949, and recognised the People’s Republic of China with its capital in Beijing and ruled over by the Chinese Communist Party.… Read