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Let’s commemorate the freedom fighter with a line of poetry she wrote in 1964:

Freedom is without a price,
yet within bounds my life lies.
Shattered jade is what I will to be,
offered to China as a sacrifice !

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#OTD In 1968, Lin Zhao, the 36-year-old political dissident, was sentenced to death and executed on the same day. She was one of the most significant resistance figures in the Mao era, and her critique of totalitarianism is still highly valuable today. #LinZhao

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Ten years on, the dystopian movie that proved to be all-too real. Read our weekly essay on "Ten Years," a Hong Kong film that predicted the city's sad state today. Bilingual. chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/24a

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It is the first volume of the China Unofficial Archives book series and received Bouden House New York's "Best Historical Memoir and Documentary Archive Award" in 2024. See our new newsletter.

The Unsilenced Will Eventually Have Their Say
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It was not until after 1980 that he was exonerated and began to rebuild his life.

These valuable historical records come from "Return from Purgatory", the autobiography of Xiang Chengjian, a key contributor to "Sparks" magazine.

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Silenced No More: In 1957, he was labeled a Rightist and sent to work, experiencing the Great Famine, witnessing the deaths of innocent people. In 1962, he was sentenced to 18 years for "counter-revolutionary crimes" due to the “Sparks” case, enduring China's version of the "Gulag".

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A widely popular song called "A Big Tree" was written by Zou Youkai after he heard the news of Hu Yaobang's death. It was written in memory of Hu Yaobang. This song is still recommended today:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT_E...

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Today's recommendation from the CUA: "Hu Yaobang and the Rehabilitation of Wrongful Cases" by Dai Huang. This book documents Hu Yaobang's efforts to rehabilitate those who were labeled as "rightists" during the Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1957.

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