Chinese Professor Fired After Criticizing Mao Online
“suggesting Mao was responsible for a famine that led to 3 million deaths”
Everything old is new again. Note from the report who was made angry by this.
From Reuters via Yahoo News:
Chinese professor sacked after criticising Mao online
A Chinese professor has been sacked after he criticised Chairman Mao Zedong on his 123rd birthday in an commentary he posted online that enraged leftists.
Mao, who died on Sept. 9, 1976, is still officially venerated by the ruling Communist Party as the founder of modern China and his face appears on every yuan banknote.
But he is particularly respected by leftists who believe the country has become too capitalist and unequal over three decades of market-based reforms, and attitudes towards Mao and his legacy mirror differences between reformers and traditionalists.
Deng Xiaochao, 62, an art professor at Shandong Jianzhu University in central China, posted a commentary on his Weibo social media site, dated Dec. 26, Mao’s birthday, suggesting Mao was responsible for a famine that led to 3 million deaths and the Cultural Revolution in which 2 million died.
The post was deleted but an image of it has been shared online and seen by Reuters.
Such public criticism of is rare in China and Mao’s supporters took to the streets to protest against Deng shortly after he made the comments.
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