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Ramachandra Guha: How China imposed a vision of the past on citizens, aiming to control the future
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,” runs one of the most famous lines in George Orwell’s novel, 1984. Orwell had the Russia of Stalin in mind here, but his aphorism is true, to lesser or greater degree, …