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4.0
This collection of tales is as interesting as disturbing, displaying several extremely detailed accounts of cases of cannibalism in modern China. I read half of the tales, but i could not get through all of them. I think that reading a selection of cases from the collection is enough to understand the horrible reality that people in rural China had to endure in every day life in the 1960s. I hope that more and more people, in particular Chinese people, will read this book, so that the victims of the communist dystopia will be remembered.
"If someday a scholar were to compile a complete version of the Chinese Civil Punishment, we would surely discover that China's methods have been the most sophisticated and cruel in the world [...] The Chinese have yet to distinguish the practice of humanism towards criminals... as for the abolition of capital punishment, this is nothing but a farce in China".
Interesting paragraph by the author, who explains his (highly controversial, I'd say) opinion about Communism:
"Equilibrium is the necessary condition for things to exist, humankind must cautiosly maintain the balance of the things they need. .... Humanking has often tried its best to destroy the internal balance and that, in turn, has led to self-destruction. The socialist revolution advocated by Marxism called for the elimination of the bourgeios class, thereby causing a serious imbalance of classes and politics; to eliminate private ownership thereby upsets the balance between the forces and the relations of production; such disorder produces more disorder, which eventually leads to a vicious cycle. This is also revealed by Mao Zedong's pitiful quote 'class struggle must occurr every seven or eight years'. Communism itself is the self-destruction of human society."
"If someday a scholar were to compile a complete version of the Chinese Civil Punishment, we would surely discover that China's methods have been the most sophisticated and cruel in the world [...] The Chinese have yet to distinguish the practice of humanism towards criminals... as for the abolition of capital punishment, this is nothing but a farce in China".
Interesting paragraph by the author, who explains his (highly controversial, I'd say) opinion about Communism:
"Equilibrium is the necessary condition for things to exist, humankind must cautiosly maintain the balance of the things they need. .... Humanking has often tried its best to destroy the internal balance and that, in turn, has led to self-destruction. The socialist revolution advocated by Marxism called for the elimination of the bourgeios class, thereby causing a serious imbalance of classes and politics; to eliminate private ownership thereby upsets the balance between the forces and the relations of production; such disorder produces more disorder, which eventually leads to a vicious cycle. This is also revealed by Mao Zedong's pitiful quote 'class struggle must occurr every seven or eight years'. Communism itself is the self-destruction of human society."
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