Rob Long

摘要

EVERY SO OFTEN, THE POLITICAL AND cultural ranks in China are convulsed by show trials and purges. The last time this happened, in the mid-1960s, it was called the Cultural Revolution, and it got out of hand: government bureaucrats and university intellectuals were paraded through the streets wearing dunce caps and insulting signs, jeered at by mobs. The goal was to sweep out the moderates, backsliders and "cosmopolitans" "and replace them with a purer and more devoted class.