Control the past: rewriting Chinese history
Over four days in Beijing, the political and military elite are meeting to recast the past. The revised version will depict Xi Jinping as a giant of the stature of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping—and justify his continued rule. More Africans are ...
November 8, 2021
20 min
Full
718 of 2,031
November 8, 2021
Control the past: rewriting Chinese history
0:00 / 20:06
Excerpt playback isn’t available for this episode — use the full-episode link.
Search the Record
Moment search isn’t open for this episode yet
When it opens, you’ll be able to type any phrase and jump straight to the second it was said.
The Economist Episodes Around November 8, 2021
Episode 718 of 2,031 — walk the feed in the order it was published.
20:06This episodeControl the past: rewriting Chinese history
Summary
Over four days in Beijing, the political and military elite are meeting <a href="https://www.economist.com/china/2021/11/06/xi-jinping-is-rewriting-history-to-justify-his-rule-for-years-to-come" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">to recast the past</a>. The revised version will depict Xi Jinping as a giant of the stature of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping—and justify his continued rule. More Africans are <a href="https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/10/30/many-more-africans-are-migrating-within-africa-than-to-europe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">migrating</a>, mostly within their own continent. And <a href="https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/10/18/a-short-history-of-hollywoods-poison-pen-letters-to-itself" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hollywood</a> is examining its navel. It doesn’t like what it finds.<hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
Episode details and artwork are published by the show’s own feed. Sentinel plays short cited excerpts and links every episode back to its publisher.