Some of the papers of the late Li Rui, a Chinese Communist Party insider who once served as a secretary to revolutionary leader Mao Zedong. The papers are part of a collection at Stanford University.

As China celebrates 75 years of Communist Party rule, there is a fight over who gets to tell the history of those years. The party would prefer to make sure the story is a positive one and is exerting power to control that narrative. One high profile example of that is playing out far away, in California.