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...people today identify as revolutionary communists. Even fewer unabashedly and excitedly espouse the political ideology of Chinese dictator Mao Zedong...
...Zedong's unsmiling visage inspired Andy Warhol and adorns China's currency. Now the original portrait of the founder of the People's Republic is--heresy!--going under the hammer in Beijing on June 3. Painted in 1950 by art-school instructor Zhang Zhenshi, the image was reproduced and distributed across China--and was the model for the portrait that still looms over Beijing's Tiananmen Square...
...Calling Re your story on Chinese president Hu Jintao's trip to the U.S. [April 24]: In visiting our democratic country, Hu represented not China's people but the Chinese Communist Party, which has been holding that nation's people hostage for more than a half-century. Under Mao Zedong, Chinese communists caused more than 70 million deaths. Today the Chinese are still not a free people. Many democracy advocates and religious workers are incarcerated in labor camps without due process of law. People are not allowed to organize political parties, and the communist Chinese government, for fear of being...
...Coming To Lunch" [April 24]: In visiting our democratic country, Chinese President Hu Jintao represented not China's people but the Chinese Communist Party, which has been holding that nation's people hostage for more than a half-century. Under Mao Zedong, Chinese communists caused more than 70 million deaths. Today the Chinese are still not a free people. Many democracy advocates and religious workers are incarcerated in labor camps without due process of law. People are not allowed to organize political parties, and the government has strict control of the mass media. Thus the Chinese people are blindfolded. TIMOTHY...
...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...