https://t.inks.page/wiki/Ian_Buruma Follow any website on Inks inks.page https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ian_Buruma?t=2026-06-27 It was, as we know, not so much eradicated as replaced by a Communist orthodoxy after 1949. And when this orthodoxy began to lose its grip on the Chinese public after the death of Chairman Mao in 1976, Chinese officials struggled to find a new set of beliefs to justify their monopoly on power. The ideological hybrid that followed Maoism was "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics," a mixture of state capitalism with political authoritarianism.

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