Thomas_More
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I wasn’t intimating any support on my part, just saying that the same framework, propaganda-wise, as Mao’s nationalistic displays was in place on the KMT side too. And the music catchier!
Chiang’s cult was under way as Mao’s was. He also had plans in place for the seizure of Tibet.But, even so, I don’t think the tyranny over everyday life would have approached Mao’s peasant tyranny.
I wish I still had the book of speeches to quote from, but we are talking about my childhood years. All I can tell you is that it was a blue paperback called Speeches of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
“Books offer a tactile experience that screens simply cannot replicate.”
When the hysteria of a month ago has died off a bit, why are tabloids like the Express bringing back the Putin bugbear?
Do they have an especial link to the military?
In earnest, or more money-grubbing through fear-mongering?
https://news.sky.com/story/nato-must-shift-to-wartime-mindset-secretary-general-warns-13272162
https://images.app.goo.gl/cLgwpWXrjAHUZgsH9
“In America we don’t kill people in cold blood.”
No, of course not.
I have three copies of a lovely KJV Bible with exquisite line drawings of places, people and other animals, of shepherds and Romans and maps, which I love because it was my school Bible.
I also have the Koran in Penguin Classics edition and a nice collection of Koranic quotes with lithographs. I have Buddhist classics and the Greek myths too.
Assad had protected the non-Islamic minorities in Syria. His was also the last secular state in the region.
Exactly.
David Irving’s (?) apparent Holocaust denial has banned him. So that means his book on the horror of the bombing of Dresden should also be banned?
Now Woody Allen is ostracised, and not even for any legal conviction. So we shouldn’t watch his great films any more?
Some call for Lillian Gish’s name and films to be expunged, because of Birth of a Nation. So we mustn’t watch her masterpieces, because of one film?
It goes on. How can we learn if we just obliterate?
One thing I do like about the internet, namely Youtube, for history lovers like me, is access to 🎵 music I never had before.
The KMT musical propaganda is as rousing, maybe more so, than Red Chinese songs and marches.
As a teenager I frequented an LP shop run by a militarist, but he had a collection I devoured at the time: Imperial Russian marches, Soviet songs, Red China songs and marches, Spanish civil war, American civil war, English civil war, American Sousa marches, Napoleonic, French Revolution … he had everything.
In the 1970s, following a personal project in school, i subscribed to China Pictorial, China Reconstructs, Chinese Literature and Peking Review, plus really cheap books from China, including the works of Stalin, and literature from FLP Peking and Panda Books.
I also got a big parcel of KMT books from Taipei, one of which was speeches of Chiang Kai-shek, in which he let slip that Mao’s China had nothing to do with communism!A friend in Switzerland salvaged a sackload of beautiful old hardback books of English literature the university had attempted to burn. He saved all but the most blackened from the bonfire and struggled through the streets with the sack until his dad picked him up in the car.
Keats, Shelley, Coleridge, Byron, Wordsworth, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, all blackened but salvageable.
A closing bookshop near here too, i was told, had a huge skip outside full of books just thrown away.
