[throwaway167]

Deng Xiaoping was not the successor to Mao. That was Hua Guofeng. An interim leader, but an important interim stopgap.

I have no idea who N S Lyons is other than a substack author. There are many other small factual errors and romanticisms of writing in the piece, as well as avenues left unexplored not least if Confucianism is but an excuse for authoritarianism as it has been used by past dynasties who've tended to flip from Confucianism to Taoism, and sometimes other, to justify themselves.

But that shouldn't shadow the subject at hand, which is casting some light on the limelight avoiding figure of Wang.

[maxglute]

He's one of the more cerebral / wordy writers like Tanner Greer that writes about US/PRC culture / how they foil each other. It's fine. Note this line in article:

>This article by N.S. Lyons was originally published on Palladium Magazine on October 11, 2021. It was featured in PALLADIUM 09: Political Outcomes.

The original article largely responsible for Huning wank in western PRC watching circles, IMO very over indexed now.

[canjobear]

Hua Guofeng seems analogous to Georgy Malenkov between Stalin and Khrushchev. Technically Malenkov was the successor to Stalin, but I wouldn't consider someone wrong for saying that Khrushchev was Stalin's successor. Maybe Hua was more significant though.