thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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 Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject: Chairman Mao's Victims Prod China to Confront Past |
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A half-century ago, Chairman Mao called on Chinese to speak their minds and offer constructive criticism of the Communist Party's work. But when they did, at least 50,000 were branded "rightists." Many lost their careers; some lost their lives.
Now, as China's legislature holds its annual session, some of Mao Zedong's victims from that time are asking their leaders to revisit a chapter that they've tried to airbrush out of history. |
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7779852
This is an audio article. It is quite interesting.
I think that China, as a growing world power, needs to be dragged through the mud quite a bit more now. |
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