From the Walls of Peking

From the Walls of Peking

We print below a section of The Fifth Modernization,  a dazibao  or wall journal, which appeared in Peking several months ago. The English version is taken from a French translation from the Chinese, printed in Esprit,  the independent left magazine that appears in Paris.

The author, who uses the pseudonym of  Jin Sheng, has also written a document on the political prison of  Quincheng where, in the time of  Mao, purged political prisoners were kept. Sheng himself was arreste...


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