Shining a Cleansing Light on China’s Dark Secrets

By artappraiser on Fri, 03/30/2018 - 10:32pm |

The Saturday Profile by Jane Perlez @ NYTimes.com, March 25

Fascinating because this guy, Chinese historian Shen Zhihua, is a real old school Commie party member, and still very much a believer, yet also a "bon vivant" gentleman and scholar who believes the truth shall set them free, at 68 survived through it all with onty a 2-yr. prison stint.

Plus he's not done, now doing this:

He appreciates that delving into the Communist Party’s past requires functioning like a guerrilla historian, not a starchy academic, so he has taken his drive for transparency beyond China’s borders.

URL:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/world/asia/shen-zhihua-china-history-north-korea.html