Talk:Mao Zedong

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Did some minor copyediting, NPOVing, replaced "Emperor Mao" with the more widely used "Great Helmsman." 172

Found this web when doing research on Mao and FDR, learned a lot from different opinions on Mao. As a native Chinese, born in 1970s, I lived through the post-Mao influence and Den's reform. Maybe one can say I do not represent all the Chinese's opinion, the fact that Chinese live a better life than our ancestors in Qing Dynasty proved that a united (I do not think in general that Taiwan issue can affect the reality that China is a united country) China, to which Mao had contributed part, is the precondition for Deng to carry out his open and reform policy. If you were interested in talking about Mao, a murderer would not be a good term to start with. Seattlewind

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Your comments on the Mao talk page were extremely astute. I'd be very happy to work with you on improving that article, especially on illustrating how the Mao era laid the groundwork for China's modernization.

A lot of Americans, especially ones with devout anti-Communist ideals, fail to look at him within the context of Chinese history. This article needs to avoid that. 172

172, Just a quick comment, in the last paragraph of the article, it says that Mao's picture appears on all new RMB, I would say all the new RMB100 is more correct. seattlewind