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...some ways most striking about the country, as new middle-class consumers flock to shopping malls, is how normal it feels. Although billboards celebrating the glory of the Communist Party can still be found in Beijing, they tend to elicit derision instead of deference--and even Chairman Mao's visage has morphed into a Pop-art commodity in the capital's avant-garde galleries...
...have a grudge against Mao? No, I don't feel any need for revenge. We bent over backward to be fair to him. But we could find nothing nice to say. He was completely immoral, and yet also very smart. He could rise from seemingly impossible situations. We were constantly impressed. I wrote a couple of sentences reflecting how appalled I was by him, but we edited them out. We wanted readers to draw their own conclusions...
...Mao still so popular in China? Brainwashing. People are deprived of the truth and inundated with books praising Mao. There's no free press to expose his activities...
...Will they ever get the truth about Mao? Right now I'm translating this book into Chinese. I hope that it can play a small role in the inevitable reassessment of Mao. And that it leads to the taking down of his portrait from Tiananmen...
...DIED. ISRAEL EPSTEIN, 90, Polish journalist who became a passionate supporter of the Chinese Communist Party and comrade to many of its leaders; in Beijing. The son of socialist Jewish emigres who settled in Tianjin, Epstein was drawn to the Communist cause after a meeting with Chairman Mao Zedong in 1944. Often the country's only English-language booster during its years of isolation, he edited the magazine China Today and wrote books like 1947's The Unfinished Revolution in China, becoming a Chinese citizen and remaining a loyal Party member even after his imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution...