The Siege of Changchun
Posted: October 3rd, 2009 | No Comments »The 60th anniversary of the communist take over of China has prompted some interesting pieces challenging the great CPC myth of the ‘liberation’. I noted the Al Jazeera piece speculating on what China might be like had Mao not won the other day.
Andrew Jacobs has written an interesting piece on the Siege of Changchun in the New York Times, another event which, while seminal to the communist victory, doesn’t fit well with the myth of benevolent liberationists supported by a popular uprising and so is therefore rarely talked about and objective books about it usually banned. Well worth a read – click here
(thanks to Bill Dodson of the This is China! blog for alerting me to the piece)
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