by jeff.sanders | Oct 31, 2019 | Blog
I love old bookstores and the wonderful old used books I can find there. I just picked up Tolstoy’s “A Confession and Other Religious Writings.” So far, the reflections of this man on the world he lived in and his own spiritual transformation have...
by jeff.sanders | Oct 25, 2019 | Blog
In reading about the bizarre life of Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, I came across the story of how in 1958 he ordered the Chinese people to kill off all the sparrows in the land. Exterminate all the sparrows? Why? Were they “running dogs of...
by jeff.sanders | Oct 21, 2019 | Blog
The communist government in China for the past 30 years has denied that it every happened. There was nothing to see. There was no massacre. Except that there was. On the evening of June 3rd, 1989, and on into the early morning of June 4, thousands of Chinese communist...
by jeff.sanders | Sep 23, 2019 | Blog
The modern police state of the People’s Republic of China began in 1935 when Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai led their rag-tag communist army away from the Nationalists (under the command of Chiang Kai-shek) to the province of Yenan. There Mao created his fledgling...
by jeff.sanders | Sep 20, 2019 | Blog
From 1958 to 1961, Mao Zedong’s economic marvel known as the “Great Leap Forward” resulted in the deaths of some 45 million Chinese–mostly through starvation or being worked to death in his collectivized farms, mines, and factories. After this...
