Tings Chak: Fifty Years After Mao – a Legacy for Changing the Current of History
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50 years after his death, the founder of the People's Republic continues to be revered in China despite the deep scars left by the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution Read
Tings Chak: Fifty years after Mao – a legacy for changing the current of history
The following article by Tings Chak, Asia co-coordinator of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and an editor of Wenhua Zongheng: A Journal of Contemporary Chinese Thought, marks fifty years since the death of Mao Zedong by asking why young Chinese people are returning to him. She begins with a television drama made for the 130th … Continue reading Tings Chak: Fifty years after Mao – a legacy for changing the current of history
History repeats itself ... On September 9th, the anniversary of the death of Mao Zedong was 50 years old. No reason to celebrate, even because the cult of the Maoists is growing again, the number of those who seek to hide their stupidity behind ideological phrases is increasing again. Mao Zedong has a legacy from somewhere on the day of his death [...]
"Mao Zedong was an emperor who reigned over the Chinese Communist Party. I found his life as an emperor very interesting." "Perhaps we should call him an 'Oriental great man.' He lived extravagantly, and his relationships with women were chaotic, but even so, the overall picture that emerges is..."
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