Are they re-evaluating whether Mao had a positive or negative influence. I am doing a history coursework on this topic and heard that they are doing an official investigation. Is this true.
And does anyone know of anywhere i could get information on this i.e. news sites. i have done a few searches but cant really find much
2007-04-05 00:30:03 · 4 answers · asked by maraesa1000 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I have my students do "current events" most Fridays, and back in September, there was a series of articles about the Chinese dropping Mao from their history books. I found it on NYTimes at the time, but they charge 4.95 to read their archive. Here's the preview.
Where's Mao? Chinese Revise History Books
*Please Note: Archive articles do not include photos, charts or graphics. More information. September 1, 2006, Friday
By JOSEPH KAHN (NYT); Foreign Desk
Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 1, Column 2, 1569 words
DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - When high school students in Shanghai crack their history textbooks this fall they may be in for a surprise. The new standard world history text drops wars, dynasties and Communist revolutions in favor of colorful tutorials on economics, technology, social customs and globalization. Socialism has been reduced to a ...
2007-04-05 02:09:19 · answer #1 · answered by Monc 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they are not. Mao is still the holy man out there.
Of course they have "progressed" a bit from his times- if you can call it that. They used to have Stalinism (total monopoly on property/economy, total monopoly on politics)
now they have introduced some free economy/property measures whille maintaining a total clampdown on political matters- which is a classic definition of Fascism.
Some might consider it to be "progress"
2007-04-05 08:02:03 · answer #2 · answered by cp_scipiom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try to get direct information from Chinese embassy or through discussion groups found through Goolge or Yahoo. Use keywords (comunism, politics, theory)
2007-04-05 09:00:44 · answer #3 · answered by carlos_frohlich 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i don't think so if what i read of excitement amongst the population of new found liberties
2007-04-05 09:10:59 · answer #4 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋