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Deng Liqin
This misidentifies the key conservative figure behind the campaign. The person widely identified in contemporary reporting and scholarship is Deng Liqun, not “Deng Liqin.”
Full reasoning
The article names “Deng Liqin” as the notable conservative behind the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign. But credible sources on the campaign identify that figure as Deng Liqun (邓力群), the former CCP propaganda chief and theoretician.
A South China Morning Post obituary for Deng Liqun says he was the “principal architect of the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign in 1983.” A recent peer-reviewed article in The China Quarterly likewise states that the term “spiritual pollution” was coined by Deng Liqun, the conservative theoretician who initiated the campaign.
So this is not just a stylistic variation: the article gives the wrong personal name. The historically relevant figure was Deng Liqun, not “Deng Liqin.”
2 sources
- China's former Communist Party propaganda chief Deng Liqun dies aged 100 | South China Morning Post
“‘Little Deng’ was the principal architect of the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign in 1983 …”
- Identifying China's Long 1980s | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
“The term ‘spiritual pollution’ was coined by Deng Liqun, the conservative theoretician who initiated the ‘anti-spiritual pollution’ campaign.”