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Is Mao Zedong Really the Most Famous Man in Chinese History?
The China Teaching Web ^ | 11/26/2008 | Jean Chesterton

Posted on 11/25/2008 9:18:35 PM PST by robertvance

The students who do not quickly shout out the name 'Chairman Mao' bring up other notable names in Chinese history such as the ancient philosopher Confucious and China’s beloved first premier, Zhou Enlai. A few students have even mentioned Deng Xiaoping as China's most famous person since it was he who opened the doors and pushed China down its present path of development.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; history; mao
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To: robertvance

He who, with his Great Leap Forward, reduced one of the world’s oldest and proudest civilizations literally to cannibalism.


41 posted on 11/25/2008 11:56:28 PM PST by AmericanVictory
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To: curiosity

Stalin killed 20 million people and is a piker compared to Hitler’s organized murder of 10 million people.


42 posted on 11/25/2008 11:56:59 PM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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To: robertvance; ansel12
Chiang Kai Shek? Over here, you might as be saying a dirty word if you mention his name.

Chiang Kai Shek is to the ChiComs what Alexander Kerensky was to the Soviets.

Mao tse Tung, when he gasped his final breath, took a Great Leap Downstairs, of that we can be assured, and is even now being incinerated eternally in Hell for his genocidal crimes.

General Tso's extra crispy chicken has got nothin' on that fat little burning sonuvabitch.
43 posted on 11/26/2008 12:00:53 AM PST by mkjessup (Senator Joe McCarthy was RIGHT - see my FR home page for a tribute to a REAL Patriot.)
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To: weegee

Someday Mao will be seen for what he was. The old China will return and shake off the trappings of Marx. But, watch out— when China wakes the world will shake. I still believe a war will be fought between China and the USA and I do not think its a war we can win—lets hope I am wrong.


44 posted on 11/26/2008 1:03:58 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: chinaboy; PzLdr

One little problem, both Jenghis & Kublai Kahn were Mongols.

My vote goes for Huang Di.


45 posted on 11/26/2008 2:07:48 AM PST by Tainan (Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
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To: robertvance

It must be Chair Mao.He was the first product of combination of the modern communist propoganda technology and traditional Confusion-style propoganda theory, wasn’t he? Even after his death, his main political enemies, who arrested his nephew and his wife after he died, feared to despise him. Oh, he was so loved and by chinese. Especially to those who couldn’t read and write in rural place, Chair Mao is more of a god than a great man.


46 posted on 11/26/2008 4:37:02 AM PST by hobbitslikepotatoes
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To: hobbitslikepotatoes

People were worshipping Chairman Mao.

47 posted on 11/26/2008 4:48:56 AM PST by hobbitslikepotatoes
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To: robertvance

The most important man in shaping Chinese history is Shang Yang.


48 posted on 11/26/2008 8:46:12 AM PST by cmdjing
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To: cmdjing
People were worshipping Chairman Mao.

Were? As far as I can tell, they still worship him.

49 posted on 11/26/2008 11:35:40 AM PST by Zhang Fei
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To: chinaboy

Qublai Quan is another way of spelling Kublai Khan, is closer [phonetically] to the Mongol pronunciation [thety have no ‘K’]


50 posted on 11/26/2008 12:55:30 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Tainan

I couldn’t agree more.


51 posted on 11/26/2008 5:27:33 PM PST by chinaboy
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To: PzLdr

Now I’ve got it.


52 posted on 11/26/2008 5:29:12 PM PST by chinaboy
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