Nanjie: China's last Maoist village still?

I was glad to see that someone finally made an English video about Nanjie, but then disappointed to find that the author had used it as yet another opportunity for the misplaced & anachronistic commie-bashing we've come to expect from mainstream journalism about China. And even that he does rather poorly, since half the details are wrong (for a better-quality report that is also ideologically motivated but at least informative, listen to Anthony Kuhn's report for NPR). Chinese readers can learn a lot more from this ongoing discussion about on Utopia. English readers may consult this (unfortunately somewhat sloppy) translation of a recent analysis by Liu Yongji, this earlier report by Cui Zhiyuan, and a few paragraphs toward the middle of this. All are pretty dry, and none reflect the complicated feelings I had when visiting Nanjie for several days last summer and chatting with villagers, migrants, and "leaders" there. Wish I had a camera and the skills to make a better video - it would be worthy of a full documentary, and I've heard CCTV has made one, so it might be worth tracking that down. But for now all I can say is to go visit if you get a chance, before Nanjie restructures into the kind of typical capitalist wasteland Tony would clearly prefer.