Communist Party Goes Modern
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/DK16Ad02.html
Posted on 10/10/2011 4:08:18 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
China grapples with revolutionary past, 100 years on
By Robert Saiget (AFP) – 1 day ago
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But the celebrations will be muted, particularly compared with those that marked the 90th birthday in July of the ruling Communist Party. That, say experts, is because of the troublesome connotations with democracy and Taiwan.
The Nationalist government was overthrown in 1949 after a bloody civil war with the Communist Party that has ruled China ever since, forcing the Nationalists to flee to Taiwan.
"The (Communist) party will play up the ability of the people to throw off the yoke of imperialism, that the people have stood up, and day by day China is becoming a superpower," said Willy Lam, an expert on Chinese politics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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"The eruption of the Xinhai Revolution overthrew several thousand years of imperial rule and has had a huge impact on the psychology of the Chinese people," historian Lei Yi of the China Academy of Social Sciences told AFP.
"The Communist Party believes that they are continuing the spirit of the Xinhai Revolution and that the Nationalists betrayed the revolution."
Qin Yongmin, a Wuhan resident who was released last year from a 12-year jail term for subversion, argues that the revolution only replaced one dictator with another.
"I do not have a very high appraisal of the Xinhai Revolution," Qin, who was jailed in 1998 after calling for multi-party democracy in China as chairman of the outlawed China Democracy Party, told AFP.
"The imperial system was removed, but a totalitarian dictator stepped in. Mao Zedong was not an emperor, he was worse than an emperor, he was more of a dictator than the emperor."
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Communist Party Goes Modern
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/DK16Ad02.html
Today is 10-10 Day on Taiwan. a big celebration of 100 years of the R.O.C.
Its all very confusing to me...but its one heck of a national party.
It’s getting hard to tell the people from the pigs.
Mao killed 40 million of his countrymen.
Some celebration, eh ?
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