I'll Ruin Everything You Are: Ending Western Propaganda on Red China

by Ramin Mazaheri

“I’LL RUIN EVERYTHING YOU ARE: Ending Western Propaganda on Red China” is a compilation of serialised articles published by The Saker and The Greanville Post. Ramin Mazaheri challenges the Western academics on their bad scholarship/propaganda on China. “It is time that the public in the US and the West wake up to modern reality. I recommend Mr. Mazaheri’s book to readers in China and the rest of the world because it is a refreshingly new perspective, and one which we urgently need right now. At this critical moment of our world, we need critical views like Mr. Ramin Mazaheri’s.” ~ Dongping Han (Author of The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village)

Genres: China

312 pages, Paperback

First published March 12, 2019

Reviews

[Chet]

More interesting, engaging, refreshing, and original than any mainstream Western journalism you can find nowadays. Take my favorite example: right-wing commentators in the US are fond of comparing recent trends of "wokeness" and "cancel culture" to narratives of stifled expression in China during its Cultural Revolution; Mazaheri flips these culture war cliches on their heads and takes the rural-rebellion-vs-elites nature of the Cultural Revolution as his starting point then draws positive comparisons between it and the populist rise of Trump. (an Iranian journalist praising Trump supporters?? *gasp*) These essays are chock full of outside the box thinking like that, and I recommend that anyone interested in contemorary US politics and Chinese politics and the weird ways they intersect please give this book a read.