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When Chairman Mao Tse-tung died last month, the two Harvard professors most sought after for comment by journalists and scholars were John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, and Ross G. Terrill, associate professor of Government...
Your recent eulogy of the late dictator of Communist China greatly distresses us. We are well acquainted with the left-wing view of the Harvard Crimson, but your editorial on Mao is too much to take. It reads as if it were lifted verbatim from The People's Daily...
...ever there was an instance of "domination by a small elite over the many," that instance was Communist China under Mao. Moreover, in the last sentence of your editorial you imply that Mao's revolution freed the Chinese people from oppression. We respectfully disagree. As we see it, people who have no freedom of thought are still "oppressed." And to top it off, you conveniently overlook the lives which were lost when Mao established his authoritarian rule, conservatively estimated at ten million...
...general consensus among Harvard's Sinologists is that China is moving into a period of continued experimentation. There won't be any new quotations from Mao Tse-tung to tide the country over rough patches, and those now wielding the well-worn aphorisms of the past may imbue them with distorted meanings. The most curious response to Mao's death may come from China's younger generation, which has never known another leader or system or experienced the turmoil and deprivation endured by Chinese in the era of imperialism and during the socialist revolutions--the same generation that, in other...
...spark can set fire to the whole plain.' --Calligraphy by Mao Tse-tung...