chen yinke, cultural revolution, historian, poet, prosecution

The Demise of the Historian and Poet Chen Yinke

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) developed from the root belief that materialism stood above all. Out of this belief, that the body is nothing more than its parts, slowly grew a force that in its roots opposed traditional Chinese culture and its reverence for the divine and the soul. Anything and anyone who opposed the ...

September 13, 2018

Hermann Rohr

Tainted History: Taking History as a Guide

In the series Tainted History, Nspirement focuses on stories about the fates of famous Chinese people around 1949, at a time when the Communist Party occupied China after winning the civil war. Before the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan, President Chiang Kai Shek took a tremendous effort to rescue scholars and social elites. We ...

August 28, 2018

Nspirement Staff