Inside Stanford's fight to keep a precious diary about China's troubled past

In chapter and verse, Li Rui documented the myriad ways in which the Chinese Communist Party was very savage, inequitable and unjust.

Historians fear that if the diary is returned to China, the government may alter it to rewrite the past.

For political control, it's very important to have a perfect version of history presented to the Chinese public.

It's more than just an inheritance dispute; the fight involves broader issues of historical truth versus state-controlled narratives.

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