After fleeing to Taiwan in 1945, Chiang Kai-Shek unleashed a murderous campaign against the non-Chinese indigenous population (that resisted what they saw as a ‘Chinese’ invasion), and a initiated a ‘White Terror’ campaign that lasted decades, murdering thousands of Chinese people suspected of having leftwing sympathies.
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Re-Enacting a Classic Chinese Poster!
When China freed herself from Western imperialist aggression in 1949, Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China (CPC) embarked upon a radical transformation of
Do Not Mistake Stupidity for Revolution!
‘We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of
China: Myths Surrounding the Anti-Sparrow Campaign (1958)
On the one hand there was Zhou Jianren, who advocated ‘revolutionary’ action against the sparrows, whilst on the other, there were advisers (such as Zhu Xi – 朱洗) quite rightly stated that in different places and times in the West (including Czarist Russia, the USA and Australia) this kind of farming experiment had already been tried – and it had failed every-time.
Pol Pot’s Explanation of Events
When asked why he emptied the cities, Pol Pot stated that the US had already been bombing areas of Eastern Cambodia, and that he (and the Khmer Leadership) were apprehensive that the US would launch a vast and sustained bombing campaign upon Cambodian cities and towns – much like the years’s of US destruction wrought upon North Vietnam.
Northern Hakka Gongfu (Email 29.4.2017)
When I wrote my Hakka martial arts article, I had communicated with a number of Mainland Hakka gongfu masters who all told me the same story – namely that their arts originated in Northern China. This is exactly what Master Chan had told me, and it seems to be a Western myth encouraged by ignorance of the subject matter, that suggests that Hakka martial arts originated in the South.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 