In 1981, Deng wrote a 'Resolution on History,' only the 2nd in CCP history, to close the chapter on the Mao era and convince the Chinese people that the CCP wasn't rotten to the core. Xi will release his own Resolution this week. To prepare, let's take a look back! THREAD:

Most people remember Deng's resolution as blaming Mao. But what struck out to me most is how much of it is making the case that actually Mao and the CCP weren't all terrible, that China shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Now onto the text!

Chinese “how to succeed at work” guides are wild. If your boss openly compliments you at work, watch out, apparently that’s to make you into a public enemy, so everyone else can be against you, thus making sure you’re never irreplaceable 😱

how long would it take for booze vending machines to be smashed open in the UK? :)

More and more people are embracing open-source research on China. I think that's great. But if you don't know what you're doing, this business can be risky—for you, your organization, and the entire field. That's why I've created this guide:

Yasheng Huang's 2008 book throws a monkey wrench into the linear, economic liberalizing narrative that has become so popular (stopping, as is erroneously held, under Xi). In fact, economic and political liberalism underwent major set backs as far back as the 1990s.

Elon Musk is a living, breathing reminder that one of America's chief strengths is its ability to let total freaks do incredible things, provided they have the ability to actually DO IT.

This is a man of obsession and madness, a man of profound insanity and shitposting, a man who definitely inherited psychological problems, but by some perverse miracle is forward-thinking and absurdly effective. Xi must be thinking "How the actual f**k is he beating me?"

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A trip back to great of Chinese history - Cao’an temple 草庵. What makes this small Yuan stone hall globally significant is a carved icon: an image of Mani, the Iranian prophet and founder of Manichaeism - & the only such icon left in the world of one time rival to Christianity.

For uninitiated, Manichaeism was an evangelising religion from 3rd century Persia. It got a foothold in Turkestan when the Uighur kingdom adopted it in 8th century - whence entered Tang China with temples in a number of cities, before a later purge. Ruins of Uighur Gaochang 2/5