When I was a young student in a Chinese primary school in the 1950+,Chairman Mao and his team of red marshals were my heros,I truly worshipp them as saviors for mankind,which to me as a kid meant basically the Chinese race.
When Mao launched the cultural revolaution in 1966,I was looking for a new era for the whole world as he promised.
Chairman Deng,a victim of cultural revolution who LKY respected immensely or so he claimed,decided to maintain Mao's status as a national hero,was probably a right decision in view of the upheavy China as a nation has gone thro',but the mistake in my view was not to come clean on the variious mistakes of cultural revolution,it was covered up till today.
Commis today are the self proclaimed market socialists,I am watching their development,to the extent that CCP is still carrying out various reform in the villages & townships,it has been positive.I believe their biggest mistake was to take LKY advice as gospel truth,the invitation of MNCs to develop China,and export as the only engine of growth,this policy cereated the biggest "imbalance" in world economy today.
Till todaay,I am able to recite "SNOW",written in Feb 1936 by Mao
Snow
(February 1936)
North country scene:
A hundred leagues locked in ice,
A thousand leagues of whirling snow.
Both side of the Great Wall
One single white immensity.
The Yellow River's swift current
Is stilled from end to end.
The mountains dance silver snakes
And the highland charge like wax-hued elephants.
Vying with heaven in stature.
On a fine day, the land,
Clad in white, adorned in red,
Crows more enchanting.
This land so rich in beauty
Has made countless heroes bow in homage.
But alas! Qin Shihuang and Han Wudi
Were lacking in literary grace,
And Tang Taizong and Song Taizu
Had little poetry in their souls;
That proud son of Heaven,
Genghis Khan,
Knew only shooting eagles, bow outstretched.
All are past and gone!
For truly great men
Look to this age alone.
(names mentioned in this poem:
Qin Shihuang : the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty[211 BC-206 BC], also the first in Chinese history.
Han Wudi: a great emperor in the Han Dynasty[206 BC-220 BC].
Tang Taizong : a great emperor in the Tang Dynasty[AD 618- 907], and maybe the greatest of all Chinese emperors.
Song Taizu: the first emperor of the Song Dynasty[960-1279])
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