There was a time when every Chinese admitted that Cultural Revolution is a mistake, an abhorrent period in our Morden history. This consensus was already reached in 1980s and 1990s China. At least when I was a student, what I read in my history textbook, it was literally recorded as a « mistake ». As teenage students, teenage like me, took this idea for granted. Whenever we talked about « cultural revolution » Our first feedback would be like « That is wrong, of course »

But in recent years, the narrative has changed. The word « mistake » was corrected into « exploration », it was described as « ten years of exploration ». You can tell the difference, right? So I don’t wanna explain more about it.

Last week, with Netflix releasing its newly make TV series « Three body problem », Chinese people began a wave of discussion online, mainly out of the Great Fire Wall, namely on twitter. People were lamenting about how the history of Cultural Revolution was obscured right now. And no joking guys, we are worrying about the revival of it now.

The rumour that Xi wants to start another Cultural Revolution emerged around 2018 according to my memory. At that time, it was still regarded as a very ridiculous opinion, including me at that time held a huge doubt on it.