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DISAPPEARING MAO?
Monday, March 13, 2006


DISAPPEARING MAO?

At the moment I am reading Mao : The Unknown Story which even after all that we've learned about communism and its depraved despots still is a revealing read. The question is how many copies have made it into mainland China and to what extent it will influence a rethink of the Chairman. Well, he may no longer find himself on Chinese banknotes:

Delegates to an advisory body to China's parliament have proposed that Deng Xiaoping, architect of the nation's economic reforms, and Sun Yat-sen, father of the revolution that toppled the last emperor in 1911, should grace the new bills, state media reported on Monday.
It may be a small gesture, but it is a siginificant move in the ongoing process of China rewriting its own history.

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