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abject humiliation beginning with the opium War. After
1949, land redistribution and the Marriage Law (which was,
by any measure, a very progressive piece of legislation) won
them plaudits too.
But then, this "common" view I'm positing would suggest
Mao became out of touch with reality, power-mad, and
dictatorial. Collectivization, the calamity of the Great Leap
Forward, the death of tens of millions of Chinese during the
"Three Bad Years" resulting from the folly of the Great Leap
Forward, the nearly suicidal break with the Soviet Union, and
of course the insanity and crazed personality cult of the Great
Proletarian Cultural Revolution all count on the opposite side
of the ledger.
officially — this was the formula handed down by Deng in
the early 1980s — Mao was "70 percent good, 30 percent bad."
I think for most Chinese — and almost certainly for most urban,
educated Chinese — the proportion of bad to good is
probably higher than that, perhaps even the reverse.
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http://www.quora.com/l/boq-kaiser-kuo
learning chinese
Why do so many Chinese learners
seem to hate Dashan (Mark
Rowswell)?
Mark Rowswell, AKA Dashan 大山
This question has come up many times in my twenty plus year
career in the Chinese media.
Very early on, only a few months after my first television
appearance in 1988, I was in the university cafeteria line-up
when two American students in front of me started joking
to each other by saying, “Hey, are you Dashan?” and “Your
Chinese is almost as good as Dashan,” etc. I laughed along
and explained, “Yeah, I actually get that one myself a lot, really
annoying.”