Shaanxi
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Shaanxi is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 06, 2022 and April 13, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “deported to the interior province of Shaanxi to work as a farmer”; “Xi was 16 when he got sent to Shaanxi”. It most often appears alongside China, Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: April 06, 2022
- Last seen: April 13, 2022
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- Hu Jintao (2 shared issues)
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- Jiang Zemin (2 shared issues)
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- Shanghai (2 shared issues)
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- Xi Jinping (2 shared issues)
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- 16th Central Committee (1 shared issues)
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- Alaska (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- American consulate (1 shared issues)
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- Aristotle (1 shared issues)
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- Artbreeder AI (1 shared issues)
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- Attorney General (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
But he was a Shanghaier who could appeal to the CYL. As a teenager during the Cultural Revolution, he was deported to the interior province of Shaanxi to work as a farmer and ditch-digger. His years of hard labor in Chinese flyover country made him more palatable to the hicks of the CYL than the average East Coast elite would be.
The other thing that didn’t work was the timing. Xi’s father was purged in 1962, which was a little too late for the Red Scare. I moved Xi’s birth back a bit, but I didn’t want to go before World War II. That meant I was a bit coy about how old Shea was when he was sent off to Iowa - if we go by the historic Red Scare, Shea should have been 7ish, but Xi was 16 when he got sent to Shaanxi. Likewise, Xi became President of China in 2012, but the US election that best fit Shea’s story was 2008, so I moved everything forward four years and made him a stand-in for Barack Obama.