Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party

Analysts: "Nine Commentaries" Sheds Light on China's Future

 

 

Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.

This month marks eight years since it was first published by The Epoch Times newspaper. Since then, it's been credited with giving Chinese citizens a groundbreaking new look at their own modern history and China's future prospects.

[Jing Chu, Chinese Author]:

"[China's] history and truths were scattered. Nothing did what the Nine Commentaries did to expose the roots of the Communist Party. It's a remarkable piece of work. People are shocked after reading it, and it's improved our understanding of a lot of things."

The Nine Commentaries critically examines the impact the Chinese Communist Party has had on the Chinese people and the nation. In particular, it looks at the result of getting rid of traditional values and replacing them with communist ideology—and what impact that's today in a China that has shed much of communism as well.

[Jing Chu, Chinese Author]:

"'Mao Zedong Thought' brought blood and tears and disaster to China. It made China a place of pretence and phoniness…people don't speak the truth; they cheat others, and this has led to the complete deterioration of spirituality and morality."

China analyst Li Shanjian says the Nine Commentaries helped him see why the Communist Party frequently talks about reform but can't actually change.

[Li Shanjian, China Analyst]:

"For its own survival, the Communist Party has been changing its own constitution. When it does something that everyone recognizes as wrong, it'll discard one or two members. It'll blame everything on those people. The scapegoats are created by the Party for its own survival."

Li says that China's future can only be outside the communist regime.

[Li Shanjian, China Analyst]:

"If true traditional culture is revived, then the communist ideals will be negated. The two cannot coexist. [Yet] without traditional culture and values, there is no future for China. So for China to have a future, we have to negate the Communist Party's values."

The Chinese-language edition of US-based The Epoch Times newspaper published the Nine Commentaries on November 19th, 2004. NTD later turned the nine-part series into a television documentary.

 http://ntdtv.org/en/news/china/2012-11-22/analysts-nine-commentaries-sheds-light-on-china-s-future.html