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The Fight Over Who Writes the History of Modern China

Some of the papers of the late Li Rui, a Chinese Communist Party insider who once served as a secretary to revolutionary leader Mao Zedong. The papers are part of a collection at Stanford University.
John Ruwitch
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Some of the papers of the late Li Rui, a Chinese Communist Party insider who once served as a secretary to revolutionary leader Mao Zedong. The papers are part of a collection at Stanford University.

As China celebrates 75 years of Communist Party rule, there is a fight over who gets to tell the history of those years. The party would prefer to make sure the story is a positive one and is exerting power to control that narrative. One high profile example of that is playing out far away, in California.

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John Ruwitch is a correspondent with NPR's international desk. He covers Chinese affairs.