They do not so much rewrite history as diminish it. The one-party state, having largely abandoned its official ideology, prefers people to think more about the future than the past.

• 他们更多的是删减而不是改写。这个一党制的国家,基本上抛弃了官方的意识形态,而希望其人民更多的思考未来而不是过去。