China… Rethinking Mao’s Role in the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries 4 Nov 2014 What are the origins of state terror? How do we disentangle the consolidation of Mao’s personalism and the consolidation of the general power of the CCP? How do we treat…
Uncategorized Deviants at the Founding: Socialist Nostalgia in China and North Korea 14 Apr 20137 Jan 2015 Socialist nostagia is a powerful thing in northeast Asia. Kim Jong-un -- or, perhaps more correctly, the committee who writes his speeches -- evinces a key understanding of this nostalgia, and…