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‘Flesh banquets’ of China’s Cultural Revolution remain unspoken, 50 years on
AFP ^ | May 11, 2016 | AFP

Posted on 05/11/2016 7:28:12 PM PDT by OddLane

At the height of the frenzy of China’s Cultural Revolution, victims were eaten at macabre “flesh banquets”, but 50 years after the turmoil began, the Communist Party is suppressing remembrance and historical reckoning of the era and its excesses.

Launched by Mao in 1966 to topple his political enemies after the failure of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution saw a decade of violence and destruction nationwide as party-led class conflict devolved into social chaos.

(Excerpt) Read more at hongkongfp.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 1966; 1989; cannibalism; china; classstruggle; classwarfare; communism; culturalrevolution; fleshbanquets; greatleapforward; guangxi; mao; maoism; scarletmemorial; tiananmensquare; wuxuan; zhengyi
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1 posted on 05/11/2016 7:28:12 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane

I thought this was common knowledge...

To anyone over 40...


2 posted on 05/11/2016 7:31:10 PM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Popman

China was an evil place in the 1960’s and 1970’s

It has actually come a long way


3 posted on 05/11/2016 7:32:47 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: OddLane

pupu platter is funny


4 posted on 05/11/2016 7:33:04 PM PDT by ghosthost
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To: OddLane

Mao.

Hero of today’s progressives.


5 posted on 05/11/2016 7:33:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: OddLane

Cream of Sum Yung Man?


6 posted on 05/11/2016 7:36:35 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: OddLane

One from column A and one from column B...


7 posted on 05/11/2016 7:37:03 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: OddLane

Obviously no fava beans and Chianti was served at the same time, or was there?


8 posted on 05/11/2016 7:37:59 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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To: OddLane

What the eff.


9 posted on 05/11/2016 7:38:06 PM PDT by Ciexyz ("You know who gets hurt? The people who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved their money."- Trump)
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To: tumblindice
Cream of Sum Yung Man?
I think it was Sum Yung Guy at the Hung Far Low Cafe.
10 posted on 05/11/2016 7:39:33 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: dainbramaged

First time I saw a `Hunan Restaurant’ sign, I thought—WTF?


11 posted on 05/11/2016 7:42:04 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: dainbramaged

We always thought our local Chinese restaurant sold dog. On the menu was young chow fried rice.


12 posted on 05/11/2016 7:43:00 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (her name is no longer is Hillary. It's Hilarity. Try it on for size, it's fun to say)
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To: BenLurkin

And the great Republican statesman, Nixon, spit on the graves of his millions of victims. None of Obama’s disgusting subservience to petty dictators comes close to Nixon’s betrayal of American principle and the Chinese people. He legitimized the greatest killer in the history of the world. I have always considered Nixon the father of the modern GOP:a self-righteous coward who capitulated to evil without gaining a single concession and one who usurped the Constitution though chicanery and bribery.


13 posted on 05/11/2016 7:48:26 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (If those who defend our freedom do not know liberty, none of us will have either.)
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To: dainbramaged

#10. No. That was on the menu at the One Hung Low bar and grill in San Francisco.


14 posted on 05/11/2016 7:57:02 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: EQAndyBuzz

#12.If your fried rice barked, you were right.


15 posted on 05/11/2016 7:58:08 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Popman; Ciexyz
Nope, unfortunately it's not.

Mao: The Unknown Story

16 posted on 05/11/2016 8:09:08 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: antidisestablishment

I agree.


17 posted on 05/11/2016 8:10:48 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Popman

I’m over 60, and this the first time in my life I’ve seen it mentioned. I haven’t tried to seek out knowledge of atrocities.

Most revolutions (Protestant, French, Marxist), have involved sexual revolution and debauchery. Cf. Democrat party.


18 posted on 05/11/2016 8:11:39 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: OddLane

And what the Japanese did to the Chinese in Nanking in 1938-39 was probably the most gruesome slaughter of all in China.


19 posted on 05/11/2016 8:13:01 PM PDT by hecticskeptic (In life it's important to know what you believe�.but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
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To: hecticskeptic

“And what the Japanese did to the Chinese in Nanking in 1938-39 was probably the most gruesome slaughter of all in China.”

Nope, the Great Helmsman was worse.


20 posted on 05/11/2016 8:21:29 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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