Isabelle THIREAU (EHESS-Paris)

The 1981 Resolution on the Cultural Revolution and the rehabilitation process of CCP leaders sanctioned during that decade have encouraged broader appeals for the revision or rehabilitation of former political verdicts. Such appeals are embedded in a wider process of re-interpretation of past actions and interactions in local villages, factories, danwei, as well as they are grounded in complex feelings of justice and injustice. Such historical sequence has revealed the difficulty observed before 1981 but still present after more than four decades of "economic reform and opening" to take others' reliability and credibility for granted, to assess "who is one for the other".