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2023 Bumingbai: Song Yongyi on PRC Personality Cults Past and Present

Another illuminating Bumingbai podcast episode, this time on Xi Jinping’s design of a personality cult for the uncharismatic with Chinese-American Cultural Revolution historian Song Yingyi of the University of California. Song sees a personality cult as a necessary weapon of leaders with leader for life ambitions. Song’s initial question was why do the Chinese have personality cults? After…

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2033 Wang Chunhan on Xi Jinping's Rise to Power

Translated below another episode of Yuan Li’s Chinese-language podcast Bumingbai via the Bumingbai Blog. Other translations here of Bumingbai episodes from the transcripts that appear about two weeks after each broadcast. 2023: PRC Freedom of Information Blogger Ruan Xiaohuan Persecuted, translation of Bumingbai #48 Conversations with Yuan Li podcast EP-048 Who is “Programming Musings”?…

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2023: PRC Freedom of Information Blogger Ruan Xiaohuan Persecuted

A Chinese language interview with imprisoned Chinese freedom blogger Ruan Xiaohuan on the Conversations with Yuan Li Bumingbai podcast gives insights on Ruan’s core beliefs and influences, including the ethos surrounding the open software and freedom of information that propelled the social construction of USENET and the Internet in its early days as well as a portrait of a young Chinese couple…