Word: mao
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...decades, the People's Republic really only had one higher power: Mao Zedong. After the 1949 Communist revolution, Mao declared that religion was a "feudal superstition" with little place in a modern Marxist society. Although five official religions were allowed-Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism and Protestantism-they were tightly circumscribed and had to express fealty to the Communist state before any divine entity. During the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, believers of these watered-down religions were attacked. Red Guards razed thousands of temples, churches and mosques. Shanghai's Jing'an Temple was converted into a flour factory and portraits...
...That's particularly the case for Hu, says Pei, because he has had the least exposure to the outside world of any Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. Hu's predecessor Jiang Zemin spent his early years in Shanghai, China's most cosmopolitan city, studied in the Soviet Union and reveled in his trips overseas; he was proud of his ability to recite from memory chunks of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. By contrast, Hu studied only in China and spent much of his career in its remote, impoverished western provinces. Jiang "liked to make jokes" with his foreign hosts, says...
...backs Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek in his fight against Japanese occupation. After World War II, Mao Zedong's Communists defeat Chiang's Nationalists, who flee to Taiwan. Mao founds the People's Republic of China, and more than two decades of isolation from the West begin...
...difference between Western and Chinese approaches to scholarship of Mao, Suleski said that “Western scholars are free to discuss [Mao’s] contradictions, while the Chinese cannot treat him as a completely neutral character...
...came to Harvard in 1965 to earn his Ph.D. He joined the faculty in 1970, and since the 1980s has been an independent writer and associate at the Fairbank Center. He is the author of seven books on China, including a biography of Mao’s wife Madame Mao...