Why China’s Revolution Has Already Begun

For a political organization founded to perpetuate revolution, the Chinese Communist Party ironically fears it. But revolution is already underway in China.
Why China’s Revolution Has Already Begun
Tourists dressed in Red Army uniforms visit Mao Zedong’s former guerilla base in Jinggangshan, Central China, on Sept. 21, 2012. Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images
He Qinglian
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For a political organization founded to perpetuate revolution, the Chinese Communist Party ironically fears it. But revolution is already underway in China, and the other shoe is about to drop.

One of the central contradictions of the regime today is its relationship between its founding ideology and the facts on the ground. Chinese school children must sit through political lessons on Marxism (or at least the Party’s version of it), Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, and other Party leaders.

For a political organization founded to perpetuate revolution, the Chinese Communist Party ironically fears it.
He Qinglian
He Qinglian
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He Qinglian is a prominent Chinese author and economist. Currently based in the United States, she authored “China’s Pitfalls,” which concerns corruption in China’s economic reform of the 1990s, and “The Fog of Censorship: Media Control in China,” which addresses the manipulation and restriction of the press. She regularly writes on contemporary Chinese social and economic issues.
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