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.

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

: 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. The heavy curtains in the Beijing study were

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 But how could a single brush stroke capture

Chen closed his eyes, and his mind drifted back over the decades.