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...Friedrich Nietzsche believed that "in forgiving and forgetting, things that have happened can be undone." But China has never stressed the "forgiving" part of Nietzsche's recipe. It is true that some "enemies" may have been "rehabilitated" after being accused of political crimes. (After the Cultural Revolution, both Deng Xiaoping and Zhao had their verdicts reversed.) But the Party's historical forgetting has tended to be selective and opportunistic. Not to be so readily forgotten (or forgiven) is the predatory history of the West toward China or Japan's brutal occupation of the country. These the Party tirelessly remembers...
...wonders how long such avoidance will serve China. As Guan Zi, a text written around the 4th century B.C. on statecraft noted: "Those who would question the present should investigate the past. Those who do not understand what is to come should look at what has gone before." Even Deng Xiaoping once declared: "Our principle is that every wrong should be righted...
...tale gallops through the birth of the Chinese republic, the Japanese occupation, the civil war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the money-obsessed Deng Xiaoping era, Jintong's feisty sisters are killed off by war and other masculine misdeeds. And, as in other Mo Yan novels, peasants suffer and bleed while Communist functionaries strut, blunder and suck the country dry as Jintong's mother's breasts. The lad survives, though not without 15 years in prison, three in a mental institution and nearly a lifetime in thrall to his mammary fixation. "Whenever I saw a beautiful breast...
...Deng Gai, the Stags’ senior center, also produced many problems for the Crimson, as he had 23 points, 13 rebounds and six blocks. All of these were game highs, and he recorded season highs in the first two categories...
After recording just one double-double all season—a 12-point, 12-rebound performance against Elon—Stags forward Deng Gai tore apart the Harvard defense, scoring 23 points and pulling down 13 boards, both season-highs...