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Reincarnation, trouble with China and a stateless people: inside the Dalai Lama’s succession story
In March 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama left the Tibetan capital of Lhasa in the dead of night to flee from Mao Zedong’s Communist regime. Over the course of the next seven decades, the Dalai Lama has ...
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Remembering history's turning point
A small town in the mountainous area at the border of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces is a place that witnessed a turning point ...
Is Chinese history repeating itself in the US?
Scholars and commentators in both the US and China are drawing comparisons between the early months of President Donald Trump ...
China is constructing a new hero cult – here’s why that matters
This “facing up” to past heroes increasingly takes place through digital means. Thanks to developments in AI, and with the ...
‘The Party’s Interests Come First’ Review: First-Generation Revolutionary
Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned ...