Postscript

The writing of this book began after the completion of Four Hundred Years of America. The United States has 150 years of “prehistory” and nearly 250 years of history since its founding. In the most recent century, its confrontation and contest with communism have produced many painful lessons, which unfortunately could not be fully developed in Four Hundred Years of America. Given the exceptional importance of this subject and the lack of a dedicated monograph addressing it, I felt it necessary to write another book to elucidate these issues and draw public attention to them. With the encouragement and support of old friends, after one year of work I completed this book of more than one hundred thousand words, A Hundred-Year Contest. I was fortunate to have prefaces written by Mr. Li Yong, a veteran anti-communist leader among Chinese Americans in New York; Mr. Yu Jinshan, chairman of the New York Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association; and my old friend Mr. Wei Hong, to whom I hereby express my collective thanks. In the appendices, this book reprints the essay “Tracing the Footprints of the American Communist Party,” and I also wish to express my gratitude to its author, Li Jianglin.

In early April 2020, I told my ailing friend Wang Kang about my plan to write A Hundred-Year Contest. Wang Kang solemnly entrusted to me his essay “Bloody Utopia and the Revelations of the Red Empire—On the Centenary of the Russian October Revolution,” instructing me to append it to the book. On May 27, 2020, Wang Kang passed away. This powerful essay thus became the last article he wrote in his lifetime. In May 2021, on the first anniversary of his death, A Hundred-Year Contest, with his posthumous work included, was published in the United States. In that essay, Wang Kang issued a categorical judgment: “If the Chinese Communist Party persists in its crimes, there is only one outcome: utter and irreversible ruin.” May those who hear this bow their heads and prick up their ears; wait and see, wait and see!

Zhong Wen

May 2021