Comments on: Scrap snaps (#1) http://www.xenosystems.net/scrap-snaps-1/ Involvements with reality Thu, 05 Feb 2015 06:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: admin http://www.xenosystems.net/scrap-snaps-1/#comment-37903 Sat, 12 Apr 2014 15:35:53 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=2404#comment-37903 It would be another — very strange — universe in which I was a positive fan of Zhou Enlai, but it seems quite obvious that wanton cultural destruction revolted him in a way that can’t be said for many of his comrades (Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi also excepted). He posted guards at the Tibetan Temple in Beijing to protect it from the mobs, and his Mogaoku construction seems definitely to be have been intended as protective. (It’s still hideous.)

]]> By: MLR http://www.xenosystems.net/scrap-snaps-1/#comment-37896 Sat, 12 Apr 2014 13:15:39 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=2404#comment-37896 Fascinating pictures! I’m so glad you’re getting the chance to see all this – I never got further west than … well, western Shandong, in my years there.

Funny that of all the demotist leaders – past and present – that I can think of, “he meant well” is a phrase I’ll most easily employ for Zhou Enlai, and he leads the pack by quite a bit.

]]> By: Scrap snaps (#1) | Reaction Times http://www.xenosystems.net/scrap-snaps-1/#comment-37894 Sat, 12 Apr 2014 11:39:42 +0000 http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=2404#comment-37894 […] By admin […]

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