2023-06-29 12:44:47
[The Epoch Times, June 29, 2023](Reported by Epoch Times reporters Ning Haizhong and Luo Ya) Zhang Guilin, the former director of the Beijing Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, was recently notified of the crime of “privately possessing and reading books and periodicals with serious political issues” On top of all questions. A person close to Beijing’s official circles disclosed the inside information of the books and periodicals involved, pointing out that the CCP’s officialdom is now in an extremely high-pressure state. Overseas observers believe that officials read banned books to find the truth, which scares the CCP.
Zhang Guilin, a high-ranking official in Beijing, was charged with the headlines, leading to speculation that insiders disclosed the inside information
According to news published on the website of the Beijing Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision on June 25, Zhang Guilin, the former director of the Beijing State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, was expelled from the party and public office for “serious violations of discipline and law.”
Zhang Guilin was investigated in November last year. Among the many crimes charged by the authorities, “weak political awareness, private possession and reading of books and periodicals with serious political issues” ranked first, followed by accepting gift money, consumer cards, and misreporting personal matters. Engaging in power sex, money sex transactions and other bribery charges.
The official bulletin did not point out the specific situation of Zhang Guilin’s “private collection and reading of books and periodicals with serious political problems”. Many netizens asked what are the titles of these books?
Yang Zhu (pseudonym), the second-generation official in Beijing who knows the inside story of the CCP’s top officials, revealed to The Epoch Times on June 28 that it was the books published by Bao Tong’s son Bao Pu in Hong Kong that caused the accident to Zhang Guilin, an official of the Beijing State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. “I heard that New Era Weekly, including The Epoch Times, and Zhang Guilin were also searched.”
Bao Pu, the son of Bao Tong, secretary of Zhao Ziyang, former general secretary of the Communist Party of China, is the founder of Hong Kong New Century Publishing House. He has published many books focusing on modern Chinese history and Communist Party politics. For example, Zhao Ziyang’s memoirs “Reform History”, “The Last Secret – Documentation of the “June 4th” Conclusion of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China”, “Mao Zedong’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Catastrophe from 1958 to 1962”, “Zhou Enlai’s Secret Emotional World” ,etc.
In the past, books and magazines in Hong Kong have often been the go-to targets for leaks from top Communist Party figures, and sacked mainland officials have released their memoirs there. Over the years, Hong Kong publishers have found a ready market among mainland Chinese readers, many of whom smuggle books home from Hong Kong.
After Hong Kong implemented the national security law in 2020, printers, publishers, and distributors were chillingly silent on politically sensitive books. The tide of mainlanders traveling to Hong Kong to buy banned books is fading day by day.
From April 2019, The Epoch Times in Hong Kong changed from free to paid. The picture shows The Epoch Times on a news stand. (Photo from Hong Kong Epoch Times)
The Second Generation of Officials in Beijing: It is too common for officials to have banned books in their homes, and the authorities exert high pressure
Yang Zhu told The Epoch Times that in fact, current CCP officials read too many books and periodicals with so-called serious political issues.
“We have some at home. In Beijing, I know a few underground book publishers, including “New Era” Weekly and “Epoch Times.”
He said that in the past, the CCP turned a blind eye to this kind of thing. Everyone watched it at home, so that no one would find out. This kind of thing is very common in people’s lives. But now it is very strict.
“Zhang Guilin didn’t say that the Disciplinary Committee discovered it this time, nor did it find out. Someone reported him.”
Yang Zhu described that the current domestic officialdom environment has entered a very high-pressure state.
“Even if you are an official, if you speak for the government, you have to be within the allowed framework. But you don’t know what the allowed framework is. So they feel that every word they say may be a mistake, Just don’t talk about it.”
Yang Zhu said that CCP officials tend to combine their own work and use information obtained from banned books, which will actually cause a kind of defection effect to the authorities. This is what the authorities fear.
Former mainland media person: I helped many CCP officials install circumvention software to read banned books
Zhao Lanjian, the whistleblower of the Girl in Chains incident and a former mainland media person now living in the United States, told The Epoch Times on the 29th that using reading banned books as a crime is a warning and intimidation by the authorities to the CCP. In fact, the acquisition of information and truth is the first condition for anyone to make a choice, and fake news cannot make accurate choices. Officials know better. Banned books have actually become another perspective of the truth, and for many officials, they are even life-saving tools.
Zhao Lanjian revealed that one of his classmates had parents who were officials of the Tonghua City Government. In 1992, Zhao Lanjian went to his house to play, and saw many banned books in his house. “It was the Hong Kong and Taiwan version of politically banned books that was popular back then. Later, all three children in the family were sent to Germany and never came back. This is the driving force behind the banned books.”
But he believes that most officials in China, although they will make money to get promoted, are still walking dead in the existing thinking routine.
Zhao Lanjian said that among the officials he knew in the mainland, many of the officials who got along well were those who overcame the wall and read banned books. “I helped them install circumvention software and install different VPNs. Their mobile phones are kept at home and hidden to read banned books. I also helped them set up one-click destruction. If someone comes to check, all information will be cleared soon .”
He emphasized that reading political books and circumvention software is a life-saving issue for officials. “No matter which book is about historical truth, it may awaken his humanity at some point.”
Analysis: Officials Read Banned Books to Seek the Truth, Fearing the CCP
The CCP’s official media previously reported that the official definition of “books, periodicals, audio-visual products, electronic books, online audio-visual materials, etc. that contain serious political issues” is: “Publicly publish the position of adhering to bourgeois liberalization and opposing the four basic principles; Articles, speeches, declarations, statements, etc. that oppose the CCP’s decision-making; make false comments on the central government’s policies; smear the image of the CCP, or slander the CCP’s leaders, or distort the history of the party and the military.”
Li Yuanhua, a historian in Australia, told The Epoch Times on June 28 that the CCP’s so-called political bans are nothing more than scandals involving CCP leaders or exposing the CCP’s lies. Since the CCP blocks all free information, reading banned books is tantamount to seeking the truth. The CCP’s regime is very fragile now, and it is afraid that officials will not follow it if they know the truth.
The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, which is listed as a banned book by the CCP. (Provided by Boda Publishing House)
Chen Weijian, editor-in-chief of “Beijing Spring”, told The Epoch Times on June 28 that the books that the authorities consider banned include some books that introduce Western democracy, and those that expose the CCP leaders’ scandals, involving their family life and their corruption Condition.
Chen Weijian is the former founder of New Zealand’s “New News”. He said that at that time, the newspaper office often had officials from China. They took the opportunity of travel and work to visit. When they saw that there were many banned books and magazines in the newspaper office, they picked them up in their hands. , I flipped through it very carefully, and sometimes I asked if I could take a copy back, and I said of course I could.
In recent years, the government has notified officials several times that they have read or privately stored “books and periodicals with serious political problems.” For example, Wang Xiaoguang, former vice governor of Guizhou, Wang Yinfeng, former party secretary and chairman of Chongqing Grain Group, Wu Dehua, former member of the Standing Committee of Chongqing Yubei District Committee, and Xu Shiping, former president and editor-in-chief of Shanghai Dongfang.com, who was double-opened on June 13 this year. There is a long list of officials charged with similar crimes.
Li Yuanhua said that many officials may have been sacked because of corruption or being involved in infighting in the officialdom, and they were found to have “possessed and read prohibited books and periodicals” by the way, and some were directly reported by their opponents to have banned books. In fact, more conscientious and sober officials are reading politically banned books, and nothing happened.
Chen Weijian said that the communist ideology has long been bankrupt, and no one believes it. Xi Jinping has tight control over CCP officials in this regard, which will arouse dissatisfaction among officials.
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