China Marks Centenary of Mao's Birth; Leaders Honor Chairman, Despite His Mixed Legacy

From: The Washington Post | Date: December 27, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

China's Communist Party leaders threw a birthday party today for a dead man whose ample corpse has been on display in a crystal case at a mausoleum on Tiananmen Square for years.

Mao Zedong, longtime chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and the dominant political figure in China for nearly three decades, would have turned 100 today.

"Comrade Mao" was "a great Marxist, a proletarian revolutionary, strategist and theoretician and a great patriot and national hero in China's modern history," Chinese President Jiang Zemin proclaimed in an hour-long speech to party members, military leaders and ...

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