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...What we see in China is political common sense, not the triumph of the rule of law," Ross Terrill, research assistant at the East Asian Research Center, said, adding, "The real issue is a dispute about Mao's legacy...
Terrill said, "Political crimes are not a test of the legal system. The outcome will be to raise the issue of Mao in a more serious fashion to the man on the street...
John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History Emeritus, said that the trial was prompted by two aims of the current regime. "One is what it claims-- topunishcrimes," he said, adding, "another is politics--to cast a bad reflection on Mao...
...trial is the culmination of a long campaign of attack on these people," Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, Williams Professor of History and Political Science, said. "They are symbols of the late Mao policies...
Schwartz said that it is accepted Chinese doctrine that "Mao in his later years is blamed for many mistakes, mitigated by his age." He added that Chinese officials may go one step further and accuse Mao of moral crimes...