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“Let Only Red Flowers Bloom is about how this period of rule by the Chinese Communist Party is one that is increasingly intolerant of diversity of cultural forms and of language uses. Xi is trying to get everybody onto the same page in a way that you could argue we haven’t seen since the final decades of Mao’s rule.” Read more...
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