Mao Zedong, a forever warm memory
The following are comments on the Xinhua news site [same one the racism article came from]. The full comments can be viewed at:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-12/18/content_1072232.htm
Iamcrazy: Whoever enables the Chinese people to have enough to eat, people will remember him.
reincarnate: Why do I have deep feelings for Mao Zedong? First, he was a Chinese; Second, he was a patriotic; Third, he worked in the interests of the Chinese nation and the Chinese people; and Fourth, he did not seek gains for himself or for his family. That is why Mao always lives in my heart.
Fuyu: Why do we commemorate Mao Zedong? Because he was the backbone of the Chinese people
I submitted these comments/questions to Xinhua News:
I am an American living in Beijing and was just reading some comments on Mao in the Voice of Netizens. If a reader wished to comment on the tragedies that occurred in this country under Mao's rule, would you publish it? Do Chinese people know about the extent of the tragedies that Mao incited? Such as the amount of people who died as a result of lack of food during the 1950s, or the amount of people that were persecuted and murdered during the Cultural Revolution. There are still so many people who remember the Cultural Revolution as they lived through it, and they do not remember it as a happy time. How then are readers still regarding Mao as a warm memory? When will you as a country own up to your real history? When will Mao become a criminal instead of national hero?
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-12/18/content_1072232.htm
Iamcrazy: Whoever enables the Chinese people to have enough to eat, people will remember him.
reincarnate: Why do I have deep feelings for Mao Zedong? First, he was a Chinese; Second, he was a patriotic; Third, he worked in the interests of the Chinese nation and the Chinese people; and Fourth, he did not seek gains for himself or for his family. That is why Mao always lives in my heart.
Fuyu: Why do we commemorate Mao Zedong? Because he was the backbone of the Chinese people
I submitted these comments/questions to Xinhua News:
I am an American living in Beijing and was just reading some comments on Mao in the Voice of Netizens. If a reader wished to comment on the tragedies that occurred in this country under Mao's rule, would you publish it? Do Chinese people know about the extent of the tragedies that Mao incited? Such as the amount of people who died as a result of lack of food during the 1950s, or the amount of people that were persecuted and murdered during the Cultural Revolution. There are still so many people who remember the Cultural Revolution as they lived through it, and they do not remember it as a happy time. How then are readers still regarding Mao as a warm memory? When will you as a country own up to your real history? When will Mao become a criminal instead of national hero?
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