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How the Communist party weaponizes history.

Aufheben's excellent account of the development and transformation of China and the Chinese working class from the time of Mao until today.

Xi Jinping is often described as China’s most powerful leader in decades, perhaps even since Mao. He has been credited—if sometimes grudgingly—with pursuing a vigorous foreign policy, economic reforms, and a historic crackdown on corruption.But as Xi completes his third year in office this month, this judgment seems increasingly mistaken, with China trapped by the same taboos

He is a strongman who wants to harness, not blow up, China’s deep state | China

Tania Branigan’s Red Memory shows how Xi Jinping’s China is erasing the violence and tyranny of Mao’s purges from history.