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'''Kong Qingdong''' is a controversial professor and scholar at [[Peking University]] in [[China]]. He is descended from Confucius.<ref name="ozmun"/>

In 2025, he met with [[Haz al-Din]] of the [[ACP]].<ref name="ozmun"/> Haz described him as "a true patriot who has fought tirelessly to keep the immortal flame of [[Mao Zedong Thought]] alive in China".<ref>https://x.com/InfraHaz/status/1981803799489786362</ref>

[[Chet Ozmun]], who lives in China, gained this impression from asking many Chinese people:
<blockquote>He is widely known as a belligerent public intellectual, a contrarian with a seemingly old-fashioned insistence on Maoist-style class struggle. Yet, this perception belies a more complex reality. His literature courses are among the most popular on campus, and students regularly vote him one of their "Top Ten Favorite Professors." Even senior colleagues, while admitting to jealousy of his popularity, have publicly credited him with breathing new life into a field of scholarship that many feel has devolved into a desperate game of "publication-based survival." Professor Kong bypasses this system, choosing to go directly to the masses with a down-to-earth, argumentative style on popular platforms like Sina Weibo. This populist approach has earned him both praise and scorn from within the academy.<ref name="ozmun"/></blockquote>

==Works==
* The Mandarin Ducks and Butterfly School: Progressive after All<ref name="ozmun">[https://x.com/OzmunC/status/1984786222149951544 The Literary Criticism of Kong Qingdong
] by Chet Ozmun, including a translation of ''The Mandarin Ducks and Butterfly School''</ref>

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