Comments on: Chairman Mao: Send them our women!

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:40:23 +0000

Good thing they embalmed Mao’s body, then? Preserving it for future reexamination.

This all strikes me as much ado over very not a big deal. It reminds me of when the British papers went crazy over “revelations” that France had tried to join the British Commonwealth in the 1950s. As you might imagine, they were tickled pink by the prospect of the froggies crawling on their knees to the Queen.

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:29:32 +0000

Yeah…actually it’s usually noted as Parkinson’s (per Li Zhisui) not Alzheimer’s, but it might be years before we know for sure.

By: I know the fact

I know the fact — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:39:31 +0000

Mao was ill with Alzheimer’s disease during Mr. Herry Kissinger’s visit.

By: Benny

Benny — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:07:52 +0000

Here’s another remark attributable to Mao that will most probably make surviving CCP members of the Long March generation either squirm on their beds or for those implicated old guards who are no longer alive turn in their graves.

“… (you are supposed to be involved in) making the socialist revolution but (you) don’t know where the bourgeoisie are. They are right here in the party, (they are) those party authorities who are on the capitalist road, the capitalist roaders are still at it.”

Source: History of the Chinese Communist Party (Zhongguo Gongchandang Jianshe Shi) published in 1991 by Shanghai People’s Publishing House (Shanghai Renmin Chubanshe).

I would like to offer several possible interpretations for Mao to reportedly make the above remark:

(1) Mao was dead serious
(2) He was just joking
(3) He was hallucinating
(4) If none of the above, please add your own interpretations.

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:40:32 +0000

John,

I don’t think anyone seriously believes it wasn’t a joke, but it’s a joke that’s helped to give us all a whole new set of laughs three decades after fact.

Thanks for stopping by.