"China's Path to Peaceful Transition" (eBook)

Book Title : China's Path to Peaceful Transition
Author : Dr. Zhang Tianliang
Language : Simplified Chinese

Book format : eBook (PDF)
Book pages : 220
File size : 1MB

Book Introduction

This book contains more than eighty political essays written by Zhang Tianliang between 2004 and 2009.

About the Author

Dr. Zhang Tianliang is a highly accomplished scholar with expertise in both the humanities and sciences, as well as Chinese and Western learning. He possesses profound insights into many affairs in ancient and modern China and contemporary international affairs.
He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Sciences at Fei Tian University and the host of the YouTube political commentary channel, "Dawn."
Dr. Zhang has also served as a visiting professor at George Mason University, a senior writer for The Epoch Times, a senior commentator for NTD Television, and a guest commentator for Voice of America and Radio Free Asia.
【Dawn】Premiered in April 2019, and as of April 2022, it has 380,000 subscribers and more than 100 million views.
Dr. Zhang Tianliang's major works include:
In 2003, he published the full-length documentary novel "Leaving the Dust";
In 2006, the DVD "A Casual Talk on Party Culture," which he helped plan and present, was distributed to tens of millions of people in mainland China.
In 2009, he published a collection of political essays entitled "China's Path of Peaceful Transition";
In 2010, he wrote and produced the film "Chance Encounter";
From 2011 to 2020, we co-produced a large-scale historical series called "Laughing and Talking about the Times" with NTDTV. The series consists of 192 episodes and about 1.5 million words, covering important figures and events from the pre-Qin period to the end of the Ming Dynasty.
In 2015, he co-authored "Unprecedented Evil Persecution" with scholars including the former Vice-President of the European Parliament;
In 2020, I taught "History of Chinese Civilization" at the City of Hope, where I systematically explained the three spiritual pillars that shaped Chinese civilization and clarified many misleading concepts.

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Author's Preface: Do the Chinese People Still Need Enlightenment?

On June 28, 2008, the Weng'an Incident erupted in Guizhou Province. A young girl was suspected of being raped and murdered, and local police were accused of protecting the perpetrators and severely injuring the girl's uncle. This sparked a protest by tens of thousands of residents who set fire to the county government and public security bureau buildings. The Chinese Communist Party authorities immediately dispatched armed police to violently suppress the protests, arresting hundreds of people. After the news spread, the internet overwhelmingly supported the Weng'an residents' resistance.

Take a look at stock forums in mainland China, and you'll frequently see posts attributing the stock market crash to opaque operations, lack of transparency, lack of an independent judiciary, lack of freedom of association, and lack of democratic systems. And these are the few posts that slipped through the net after strict censorship and filtering by internet administrators. When Yang Jia attacked the police, there was a flurry of praise online, calling him a "modern-day Wu Song" (a legendary hero known for his bravery and sacrifice). Not to mention the attitudes of people who can't afford education, healthcare, farmland, houses, or jobs—people facing forced demolitions and loss of employment—towards the CCP.

Therefore, in contemporary China, those who speak well of the CCP are absolutely a tiny minority. Even among this minority, it's a complex question to determine how many genuinely believe the CCP is good, how many are being deceived into saying so, and how many are saying it against their conscience for personal gain. The CCP is perfectly aware of the answer—if it believed the majority of the people supported it, it would have already implemented universal suffrage.

Given the widespread dissatisfaction among the people with the CCP, what is so special about the "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party" in its exposé of the CCP?

Of course it exists, and its perspective is irreplaceable; its significance cannot be overestimated no matter how you assess it.

"Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party" was the first work to break free from the established mindset of CCP party culture in its exposure and systematic reflection on the CCP. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the "Nine Commentaries" is its nine titles, which bluntly point out that the Communist Party is an evil cult. The "Nine Commentaries" tells people that the CCP is an evil spirit possessing the Chinese nation, not only incapable of reform but also destined to become increasingly evil. To break free from the CCP, we must examine our own hearts and rebuild our morality. As a result, Chinese people with a remaining conscience abandoned their illusions about the CCP and began to withdraw from the CCP and its related organizations, namely the "Three Withdrawals" movement of "withdrawing from the Party, the Youth League, and the Young Pioneers."

This approach of dismantling the CCP through "withdrawing from the CCP" is the least costly and most peaceful method, which I call "China's path to peaceful transition." It breaks the deadlock where the CCP is unable to reform, while civilian violence is insufficient to overthrow the CCP.

As the CCP's end approaches, its looting and suppression of the people will intensify, and the people will become increasingly unable to tolerate it.

In April 2006, I mentioned in a speech: "We can ask ourselves a question: if no one had renounced their membership in the CCP, would the CCP have disintegrated? It certainly would! But it could also have been due to economic collapse, political collapse, ecological collapse, or the people's patience reaching its limit, leading to a rebellion. Lao Tzu said, 'After a great army, there will surely be a year of famine.' China can no longer withstand that kind of great upheaval. We must disintegrate the CCP before the people reach their breaking point... We are racing against time."

In view of this, I have taken the liberty of compiling and publishing my articles, speeches and interviews related to the "Nine Commentaries" and the "Three Withdrawals" over the past five years into a book, hoping to contribute to the dissemination of the "Nine Commentaries" and the advancement of the "Three Withdrawals".

As a theist, I am well aware that the principles of Heaven are profound and difficult to articulate. This book merely uses worldly principles to deduce some of these principles.

Let history be the judge of the conclusions drawn, especially those marked with "★" and "☆".

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September 9, 2009, in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.