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Mendacity and Veracity in the Recent Chinese Communist Memoir Literature
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ABSTRACT
AsanyoneworkingonthehistoryoftheChinesecommunistmovementknows, thelastdecadehaswitnessedanexplosionofmemoirliterature,[email protected])'tZ*[reminiscences].Previously,thehistoryofthecommunistrevolutionwas oftenmentioned,thoughrarelyexarnined,inPRC"scholarship";ithasnow emergedasabonafidesubjectforinquiry.And,asintheSovietUnionduring Khrushchev'sde-Stalinization,peoplearewritingtheirmemoirs.Thisnewbody ofmaterialisprovidinginvaluableinformationforstudentsofcontemporary ChinesehistoryandmanyforceustorewritethehistoryofChinesecommunism.WenowhavemoredetailsaboutthecommunistmovementinChinathan anyonepersoncandigest.However,thismaterialisnotwithoutitsflaws,and ourexcitementatitsappearanceshouldnotblindustothem.Itmustbeapproachedwithjustasmuchcritica!acumenaswewouldanyotherbodyof documents,especiallythoseproducedinastatewherethepressiscontrolledby thegovernment.1shalltrytoillustratewhat1haveinmindherewithexamples frommyworkontheChinesecommunist"philosopher,"AiSiqi)t}jll,~(19101966).
