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Is there some list of sins the Chinese Communist Party has committed somewhere? I've heard of the widespread general repression and censorship, of Tiananmen Square, of the One Child Policy, and of the Uighur Genocide, and I am wondering if I am missing something. I want to be ensured of their actual level of awfulness before I get into hypothetical arguments with hypothetical tankies, who despite knowing China is capitalist, still seem bent on interpreting them in the most charitable light possible and dismissing the rest as western propaganda.
If you have book suggestions on the subject, that would be good too. I had to read "The Origins of the Modern World" for college non-western civ, and I quite liked it. On that note, if you have any general world history books, that would also be great. I especially have no idea about Korean history.
A problem you will run into with Korean history (and too a lesser extend Japan) is that the Koreans themselves aren't really interested in a factual, empirical examination of their own history. It took centuries for western nations to find value in seprating actual, evidence supported, factual accountings of their own histories from myth and apocrypha. And they were able to do so at their own pace. While there are some Korean academics who are trying, Korean society as a whole has no apetite for separating actual history from myth and legend right now. This is almost as true for the South as the North too.
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