I was reading this and it really made me think >the head of China’s Communist Party is actively promoting a wave of neotraditionalism. Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized the need to “advance and enrich outstanding traditional Chinese culture (中华优秀传统文化)” (CCP News, July 22, 2015).
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>Xi’s analog to the “little red book,” titled Classical Aphorisms by Xi Jinping (习近平用典) was published in 2015. The preface, “Draw Power from Chinese Culture” trumpets Xi as a role model in learning and applying traditional ethics, and calls on the nation to build the present and future with those values in mind. Unusually for a book dedicated to speeches and writings of the Communist Party’s general secretary, the volume contains zero quotes from Marx and Mao. Instead, reading like an emperor’s handbook, it is divided into chapters on various aspects of governance filled with Xi’s favorite classical maxims.
Maybe, but Shen Yun, the play currently touring the US celebrating "5,000 years of culture" that from the brochure appears to be all but explicitly Traditionalist is still banned in China.
Julian Perez
>Shen Yun who
Jayden Gray
Shen Yun is just a money making scheme for Falun Gong.
Aaron Cox
By traditionalism he means as in traditions from around the early years of the revolution/
Juan Peterson
no, the author says the opposite, he says one of xi's enemies was like this, but Xi is looking at pre-revolutionary tradition
Isaac Lopez
Woah I didn't know that. I would think Xi just wants stability
Caleb Lee
>Falun Gong The yoga group that's getting imprisoned and forcibly organ harvested? Good for them.
Cooper Barnes
It makes sense for Xi to persecute them if you see it from his view. China's historically has always had issues of fringe religious movements causing rebellions, especially one that people even in high rankings of the party was starting to practice.
