sendername: Peng Wenbin
CRComments: Can't believe I might be the first to "input" something here. Really an impressive exhibit, and more so with the tech show of Mr. Sidney Rittenberg's presentation. I listened for half an hour, and hope I'll find more time to listen more carefully to his interesting talk.

During Mr Rittenberg's speech, did anyone ask in what sense he contrasts the Cult Revolution to the Holocaust other than those disasterous consequences, say, the number of people of died in political struggles?

The 1993 version of the Holocaust memorial exhibit in D.C. finds much resonance in "memory work" during the last decade, and it also offers intellectual resources to condemn ETHNIC genocides elsewhere in the world (such as in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Kosovo). It is also picked up by the Tibetan government in-exile to rebuttal the Chinese cultural and ethnic politics in Tibet.

To call the Cult Revolution a Holocaust needs some definition, I guess. In Germany, a pro-H attitude might incur the risk of neo-Nazism. But in China, the Cult nostalgia would be hard to be disscussed in this discussion.

I guess the present "GLOBALIZATION OF HOLOCAUST DISCOURSE" has its traces in Mr. Rittenberg's presentation.