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tealeafnation.com — The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has published an apparently invented speech by American President Barack Obama praising Chairman Mao.

www.nytimes.com — “Turning away from Legalism and Mao is going to be a challenge, because they haven’t worked their way through the Mao period,” said Mr. Bellah...“In a curious way, it’s like the war guilt of Germany or Japan. I think in Germany they’ve come to terms with it, whereas in Japan there’s almost a dramatic lack of any sense of responsibility,” said Mr. Bellah...

chinahopelive.net — If you look at examples like the recent hit-and-run toddler death in light of the Great Leap Forward and its legacy (which includes the Cultural Revolution), contemporary Chinese society starts to make a little more sense. Just reading the 2010 "Mao's Great Famine" eats away at your humanity, but what if you'd lived through it?

chinahopelive.net — One Chinese author's quest to salvage first-hand accounts of Maoist China - and the dignity and humanity of an entire generation - before it's too late: "This madness has taken hold of me, and will not let me go: I cannot believe that Chinese people always take the truth of their lives with them to the grave."

www.thechinatimes.com — August 18, 1966, Mao Zedong met with Red Guards in Tiananmen Square for the first time, opened the national Red Guard movement. During the early stage of the Cultural Revolution. Mao Zedong met with Red Guards eight times, received more than 12 million students and other young people in Tiananmen Square.