: He remembered standing in Tiananmen Square. The electric roar of the crowd as Mao proclaimed that the Chinese people had finally stood up. The end of centuries of foreign humiliation. Hope was a physical thing then, thick in the air.
Chen’s task was to help draft the initial bureaucratic summaries of the Chairman's legacy. But how could a single brush stroke capture a man who was both a god and a hurricane? The Two Faces of the Mountain China: Mao's legacy
The heavy curtains in the Beijing study were drawn tight against the biting autumn wind of 1976. On the massive mahogany desk sat a single porcelain cup of green tea, long gone cold. : He remembered standing in Tiananmen Square
We could explore a of the "70% good, 30% bad" official evaluation by the CCP, or pivot to the economic reforms that followed under Deng Xiaoping. China: Mao's legacy в Steam Hope was a physical thing then, thick in the air
Old Chen, a veteran clerk of the Central Committee, stared at the blank sheet of paper before him. His brush, heavy with rich red ink, hovered in the air. Outside, the nation was holding its breath. The "Great Helmsman," Chairman Mao, was dead.
