Years of Poems and Spirits

Recently have heard couple of people implying current Chinese leadership don’t know how the country was run prior to 1949. R. Bin Wong and couple of professors mentioned that during a talk and just read similiar sentiment in Perry and Goldman’s Grassroots Political Reform … book.

Does that mean there is lack of serious study on past state-society relationship? Even lack of knowledge of governance style/tradition? It is hard to believe but somehow I felt there is more to it …

Just a reminder.