A Lingering Red China Mystery

choi

Sergey Radchenko, China’s Secrecy About Its Past Could Stifle Its future. Washington Post, Dec 30, 2011 (opinion).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/op ... P_story.html?sub=AR

Quote:

"Anyone in China interested in studying the origins of the Korean War, which took place more than 60 years ago, will not get very far. The Great Leap Forward? The Cultural Revolution? Same story. Uncomfortable episodes of China’s recent history have become a subject of official amnesia and a victim of the government’s monopoly on truth.

"This [about Lin Biao] is the official story; this is as much as the Chinese government is willing to say 40 years on. We do not know whether Lin Biao really planned to kill Mao. Their fallout could have been a personal feud or, as the chairman later claimed, a policy disagreement (Lin Biao is said to have opposed the Sino-American opening). * * * Although we know precious little about Lin Biao’s death, we know enough to conclude that at least part of Beijing’s explanation is a fabrication.

Note:
(a) The title of my posting is plucked from the search result in the newspaper website.
(b)
(i) The University of Nottingham Ningbo
http://www.nottingham.edu.cn/en/index.aspx
(About: "A truly unique British university in China[:] The University of Nottingham Ningbo China was the first Sino-foreign university to open its doors in China, in 2004, with the full approval of the Chinese Ministry of Education.")
(ii) University of Nottingham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Nottingham
(a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Established in 1798 as an adult education school and in 1881 as University College Nottingham)
(c) Sergey Radchenko, Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967. Stanford University Press, 2009.
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=11142
(d) The "stump" in "stumping aggressively" is an intransitive verb that means "to walk heavily or clumsily."
www.m-w.com
(e) Jonathan Spence, The Search for Modern China. WW Norton & Co, Inc, 2001
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-0-393-30780-1/