User:Arilang1234/Draft/POV pushing by Midnightblueowl
Book reviews on Gao's book
- Official website for Revolution newspaper, voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. (Arilang's remark:Isn't this a banned ultra leftist political party?)
| “ | 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 | ” |
- Culturewars.org.uk
| “ | 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/ | ” |
- The revolution, revised by Michael Rank at guardian.co.uk Michael Rank's review on Mobo Gao's book The Battle for China's Past: Mao & the Cultural Revolution.
- ""A powerful mixture of political passion and original research, a brave polemic against the fashionable view on China. ... Aims a knockout blow at Jung Chang's recent book on Mao, which Bush and the conservatives rave-reviewed." Gregor Benton, Professor of Chinese History, University of Cardiff.
- "This important book ... Highlights the renewal of popular support for socialism and the growing opposition to contemporary state policies." --Martin Hart-Landsberg, Professor of Economics, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon "
http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Chinas-Past-Cultural-Revolution/dp/074532780X
Mobo Gao's own word
| “ | 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**
- On Cultural Revolution, wholesale removal of anti-Mao content claiming "dead link", when new reference can easily be found on published books or the web.2
- On Cultural Revolution, wholesale removal of Chinese government official anti-Mao content, claiming unreferenced information, when the official Chinese government stance on Mao is a well known fact.3