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Xi’s Great Leap Backwards

How to create a personality cult without, er, a personality

18 September 2021

9:00 AM

18 September 2021

9:00 AM

Xi’s Cultural Revolution is now well under way and beginning to echo Mao’s Cultural Revolution (1966-76). There will, of course, be differences. After all, Mao’s era was characterised by pervasive poverty – unless you belonged to the party elite – while Xi’s China has high-speed rail, ambitions to colonise Mars and so forth.

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