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Hong Kong (CNN)As Chinese leader Xi Jinping looks set to seek a third term
in power, he is seemingly preoccupied with the past, not the future.
When more than 300 members of China's political elite gather in Beijing this
week their main task will be to review a draft history resolution that
defines the ruling Communist Party's "major achievements and historical
experiences" since its founding 100 years ago.
The agenda of the most crucial Central Committee meeting before the twice-a-
decade leadership reshuffle next fall is carefully and deliberately chosen.
It speaks of the importance Xi attaches to party history, and his own place
in it.
In some ways, that obsession with history can be seen as rooted in a
tradition dating back to ancient China. For centuries, Chinese imperial
courts appointed historiographers to document the rise of an emperor, which
often involved compiling -- and rewriting -- the history of his predecessor.
To the Chinese Communist Party, history -- or rather, certain curated
versions of it -- can be extremely useful.
China's alleged "historical claims" to disputed territories and waters, for
instance, have been used by Beijing to bolster its case for contemporary
sovereignty, while the narrative attached to the so-called "century of
humiliation" by foreign powers -- from the First Opium War in 1839 to the
founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 -- has become a
central source of legitimacy for the party. | W*****B
发帖数: 4796 | 2 这个若干历史问题的决议，相当于古时候帝王修史，对于前朝和之前帝王盖棺定论 | m****a
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