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9/22/19
A Family History of the Red Scare
by David L. O'Connor
A review of David Maraniss' A Good American Family: My Father and the Red Scare.
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4-3-16
Why Did Whittaker Chambers Leave the Communist Party?
by Daniel Oppenheimer
It wasn’t one big thing. It was a series of small shocks.
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SOURCE: NYT
12-26-14
The Elusive Chinese Dream
by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
The Communist Party should be more confident than ever. So why is it so anxious?
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SOURCE: LA Times
8-1-13
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Old Stories from the New China
Jeffrey Wasserstrom teaches at UC Irvine and is the author of "China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know."In July, two stories out of China were big news. One focused on watermelon seller Deng Zhengjia, a poor urban migrant in Hunan province, who became newsworthy only when reports circulated that thuggish chengguan — members of para-police units — allegedly beat him to death. A week later, someone very different, Bo Xilai, was back in the news when he was formally charged with "abuses of power" and corruption. Bo — the former party boss of one of China's biggest cities, Chongqing, a Politburo member and once thought to be bound for elevation to the Communist Party's ruling Standing Committee — was anything but poor, powerless or unknown before cascading scandals brought him down in 2012. Putting the tales of Deng's death and Bo's indictment side by side illuminates a major challenge China's leaders face: How to keep the people believing the stories they tell to justify their rule.
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