The disaffected characters of Pirandello’s work offer us perhaps a way to understand the complaints and parodies of Communist Party rule that abound on the Chinese Internet. If unelected rule had previously allowed China’s party-state to claim omniscient authorship of the nation’s history, censoring and tailoring the narrative as it pleases, the present era of instant digital publicity and micro-blogging has enabled a legion of voices to point out inconsistencies in the Party’s account and to parody the clichés of official story-telling.ci
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