Commentary
The Chinese Communist Party’s history is full of forbidden subjects, and the most paramount of them is undoubtedly the Cultural Revolution.
In the 1980s, right after the publication of the “Resolution on Certain Historical Issues of the Party since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China” at a 1981 CCP committee meeting, in which the Cultural Revolution was characterized as “totally wrong,” Chinese society was relatively free, and a number of historical works on the Cultural Revolution appeared, with “Turbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution” by political scientist Yan Jiaqi and his wife Gao Gao being most well-known and republished in Hong Kong by Ta Kung Pao. However, distribution of the article was prohibited after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre as the authors were labeled by the CCP as “masterminds” behind the events….