By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: a revolutionary poster included in Book #3 of The China Trilogy, China Is Communist Dammit. Shown are Shanghai educated youth going to Xinjiang, with Mao Zedong’s Little Red Book in hand, to teach the peasants what they knew, but more importantly, to come back home, changed themselves, forever. …
By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: Sidney Rittenberg is a rare American who worked in the upper echelons of China’s pre- and post-liberation government. Here he is in 1966, with Mao Zedong autographing a copy of The Little Red Book. Do your friends, family and…
By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: on the left is Emperor Taizu of Song playing cuju (football) with Prime Minister Zhao Pu. He reigned in the 10th century. This painting is by artist Qian Xuan (1235–1305). On the right, 1,000 years later, then Vice President Xi Jinping showed off his football skills, while inspecting a…
By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: Western circulated photo of “Chinese famine”. Images don’t lie, they say, but erasing context does—an old Western technique. As explained by Wikipedia, rarely an impartial source, The Great Chinese Famine (1959—1961) “was caused by social pressure, economic mismanagement, and radical changes in agriculture in addition to weather conditions and…
By Jeff J. Brown Day after day, week after week, citizens of China see headlines like this (in Mandarin of course), touting China’s never-in-human-history, record setting achievements, development and progress. The above article explains how Shenzhen is starting construction on five new urban metro lines, to be completed in five years. They just opened three…
NOW IN 22 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. CLICK ON THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER “TRANSLATE” TAB TO FIND YOURS! By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: nice view above of Shenzhen, from one of its many mountain parks. Everything you see here did not exist in 1980. Shenzhen is a super place to live and work, and…
NOW IN 22 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. CLICK ON THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER “TRANSLATE” TAB TO FIND YOURS! By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: DPRK leader Kim Jong-un is savagely and incessantly portrayed by the West’s symphonic, CIA mainstream propaganda machine, as a fool and a nut. In fact, he is an extremely intelligent and…
NOW IN 22 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. CLICK ON THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER “TRANSLATE” TAB TO FIND YOURS! By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: Baraah Alawdi, originally from Yemen, poses for photos next to an unidentified artist’s mannequin placed outside of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017….
NOW IN 22 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. CLICK ON THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER “TRANSLATE” TAB TO FIND YOURS! By Jeff J. Brown Pictured above: Admiral Zheng He, probably the greatest mariner who ever lived. Thousands of dollars are needed every year to pay for expensive anti-hacking systems, controls and monitoring. This…
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