For the past decade in China, under Xi Jinping, the wheel of history seems to be spinning in reverse. JiayangFan writes about how the current protests carry an echo, and a warning, from the Maoist era.
During the spring of 1976, a million people gathered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, ostensibly to mark the passing of a beloved premier, Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong’s lifelong comrade-in-arms.
“You can’t force people to live in a permanent state of war, just as you can’t subject them to the unending chaos of revolution,” a former student activist who had been in Tiananmen Square and who asked to be identified only by the initials J.L., told me. J.L. came to the United States in 1990, when he was in his early twenties.
When I relayed these sentiments to the protest leaders of the earlier generation I had spoken with, they weren’t surprised. “I think it has a lot to do with the revisionist history and practice of indoctrination in the Chinese educational system,” J.L. said.
If no other leader until Xi has mirrored Mao’s obsession with absolute power and loyalty, it almost certainly has to do with the fact that no other leader has exuded such palpable concern for the faltering legitimacy of the Communist Party. Nearly three years after Xi launched his “zero” campaign, infection rates in China hit a record high this past week, the economy is faltering, and youth unemployment is climbing.
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