“ | It contests the anti-Mao memoir literature that has such influence in the West and punctures big lies about Mao and the Cultural Revolution. http://revcom.us/a/140/CIO-Mobo_Gao-en.html | ” |
“ | But here’s the problem: even if Mao was never a ‘Chinese Hitler’ in his lifetime, his recent appropriation by predominantly hard-line nationalists is perhaps nothing to celebrate either. The Battle for China’s Past simply doesn’t give us enough to work with to decide whether e-media defences of Mao are implicated within a populist movement that is fundamentally progressive, or whether it is only post-humously that Mao the man will become a pinup Chinese national socialist. http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/Sieg_heil_chairman_mao/ | ” |
http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Chinas-Past-Cultural-Revolution/dp/074532780X
“ | Challenging the Official Verdict
by Mobo Gao The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) official view of the Cultural Revolution, corresponding to the mainstream Chinese intelligentsia understanding and interpretation, is well received and supported by the Western media and most of the scholarly community. http://kasamaproject.org/2008/11/06/mobo-gao-challenging-official-verdicts-on-maos-cultural-revolution/ |
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Excessive use of Mobo Gao's book, when the book is " a brave polemic against the fashionable view on China" (in Professor Gregor Benton's word). 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Excessive use of Mobo Gao's book, when Gao himself admitted that his concepts are "strange and not mainstream": 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16**
“ | It contests the anti-Mao memoir literature that has such influence in the West and punctures big lies about Mao and the Cultural Revolution. http://revcom.us/a/140/CIO-Mobo_Gao-en.html | ” |
“ | But here’s the problem: even if Mao was never a ‘Chinese Hitler’ in his lifetime, his recent appropriation by predominantly hard-line nationalists is perhaps nothing to celebrate either. The Battle for China’s Past simply doesn’t give us enough to work with to decide whether e-media defences of Mao are implicated within a populist movement that is fundamentally progressive, or whether it is only post-humously that Mao the man will become a pinup Chinese national socialist. http://www.culturewars.org.uk/index.php/site/article/Sieg_heil_chairman_mao/ | ” |
http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Chinas-Past-Cultural-Revolution/dp/074532780X
“ | Challenging the Official Verdict
by Mobo Gao The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) official view of the Cultural Revolution, corresponding to the mainstream Chinese intelligentsia understanding and interpretation, is well received and supported by the Western media and most of the scholarly community. http://kasamaproject.org/2008/11/06/mobo-gao-challenging-official-verdicts-on-maos-cultural-revolution/ |
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Excessive use of Mobo Gao's book, when the book is " a brave polemic against the fashionable view on China" (in Professor Gregor Benton's word). 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Excessive use of Mobo Gao's book, when Gao himself admitted that his concepts are "strange and not mainstream": 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16**