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Proletarian China keyword-us-west Postcolonial Theory and the SpecterIn 2021, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated a century of existence. Since the Partys humble beginnings in the Marxist groups of the Republican era to its current global ambitions, one thing has not changed for Chinas leaders: their claim to represent the vanguard of the Chinese working class. Spanning from the night classes for workers organised by student activists in Beijing in the 1910s to the labour struggles during the 1920s and 1930s; from