Dozens of Chinese experts and scholars have died in the recent outbreak of COVID-19. On Dec. 22 alone, three obituaries were released by Peking University, a university renowned for its “important and unique contribution” to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
In fact, it was through the unusually frequent obituaries released by Peking University and Tsinghua University that many Chinese people came to realize the severity of the current outbreak.
During the 36-day period from Oct. 31 to Dec. 5, Peking University’s website announced the deaths of 15 retired professors. Tsinghua University saw 11 deaths in the first ten days of December alone. Many of the deceased were influential members of the Chinese Communist Party.
The surge in obituaries has coincided with massive protests in China beginning in late November, followed by the abrupt end to Zero-COVID measures in early December.
Birthplace of CCP
Peking University was the center of the so-called “New Culture Movement“ that arose around 1915, and the cradle of the ”May Fourth Movement,” both of which attacked traditional Confucian ideas and directly spurred the propagation of Marxism in China. The university website states “it is indisputable that Peking University is the very place the earliest group of communists and Marxists in China came from.”A study group, directed by Peking University professors to study Marxist ideas, led to the establishment of China’s first communist group.
After its establishment, under the leadership of Li Dazhao, one of the early founders of the CCP, the students who joined the organization devoted themselves to studying, researching, and propagating Marxism. Peking University was the base for these activities. Early CCP leaders at Peking University also systematically launched the workers’ movement, established the Socialist Youth League, and paved the way for the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921.
The university formally included Marxist theory into its curriculum, making it the first Chinese university to begin indoctrinating Marxist ideology in its students.
With the teaching of Marxist principles at Peking University, a group of early communists emerged in China, who were determined to follow Marxism and take the path of the October Revolution of 1917.
By the time the CCP held its First National Congress in 1921, 21 of the 53 participants had ties with Peking University.
‘A Series of Sensitive Events’: Expert
In March 2020, during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi warned in an article entitled “Stay Rational,” “Truth be told, pandemics only come when people’s morals and values have turned bad and they have come to have a massive amount of karma.”In his article, Li Hongzhi advised, “What people should do, instead, is to repent to the divine with all due sincerity, admit to their faults, and pray for a chance to change their ways.”
“A pandemic like the current Chinese communist virus (or ‘Wuhan virus’) comes with a purpose behind it, and it has targets. It is here to weed out members of the party and those who have sided with it,” Li Hongzhi said.
Current affairs expert Li Yanming told The Epoch Times on Dec. 24 he believes there is truth in Li Hongzhi’s statement.
“A series of sensitive events foreshadow that the final drama of the CCP is on stage, which fulfills the previous warning of the founder of Falun Gong,” he said.
