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Cultural Revolution Shaped Xi Jinping, from Schoolboy to Survivor

• toomim 11y ago
  Woah, this flattering article of a Chinese ruler feels like something I'd read in the Chinese government-controlled news! Does the nytimes feel pressured to write these flattering articles about Chinese rulers because of the attacks from China in the past few years? [1] [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/technology/chinese-hackers-infiltrate-new-york-times-computers.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/technology/chinese-hackers...
  • IIAOPSW 11y ago
    Not really. It just read like a factual (or at least well researched) biography. Is there some rule that either every article written about China is unflattering or else it must be coerced?
• obrero 11y ago
  > Mr. Xi has often discussed the seven years he spent exiled to a rural village during the latter part of the Cultural Revolution, including in a speech in Seattle on Tuesday, casting that chapter of his life as an uplifting story of a city boy who discovers the suffering of ordinary Chinese in the countryside and resolves to make a difference. As this was the main point of the Cultural Revolution's Down to the Countryside movement, I'd have to strike this as one of the successes of the Cultural Revolution.
  • mirimir 11y ago
    From The Three Body Problem, I get that the "Down to the Countryside" movement was more about getting the crazies out of the cities ;)