Danwei: Guangdong opens Cultural Revolution files

On Danwei, Joel Martinsen summarizes Chinese press reports about the recent release of historical files in Guangdong:

On Tuesday, the provincial archives in Guangdong formally opened 127,031 historical files to the public. These files cover the time period between 1949 and 1974, and hence include a large number of documents from the Cultural Revolution. They represent 32% of the post-revolutionary holdings of the Guangdong archives…

File 316-2-32 concerns a particularly rowdy football match between teams from North Korea and Hunan, in which fans set off firecrackers and threw junk onto the field when the score was tied up near the end of the game. In particular, the file contains Premier Zhou Enlai’s memo protesting the officiating. The match was called as the Korean team was setting up a corner kick, and the Premier was displeased.

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