Chinese Professor Fired for Anti-Mao Remarks

[TomSea]

Excerpt:

Chinese Professor Fired for Anti-Mao Remarks
He criticized Mao's Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, estimated to have killed tens of millions
By Jack Phillips, Epoch Times

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Deng Xiaochao, 62, an art professor at Shandong Jianzhu University in central China, suggested in a Dec. 26 post on Chinese social media that Mao was responsible for the severe famines and mass deaths before and during his reign.

Chinese leftists then harassed him online, calling him “the People’s Public Enemy” and other Maoists slogans and labels. Shandong Jianzhu University then fired Deng for his “erroneous remarks” on Jan. 5, according to the state-run Global Times tabloid.

Deng wrote in a now-deleted post: “If he’d died in 1945, China would have seen 6 million fewer killed in war. If he’d died in 1958, 30 million fewer would’ve starved to death. It wasn’t until 1976 when he finally died that we at last had food to eat. The only correct thing he did was to die,” as reported by the Wall Street Journal.

After the Second World War, the Communist Party launched a civil war against the ruling Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang), and forcibly seized power in 1949. The Nationalists had done most of the fighting against the invading imperial Japanese army and was severely weakened, a situation that the communists capitalized on.

From 1958 to 1961, Mao launched the Great Leap Forward, a economic and social campaign to industrialize and collectivize China which resulted in 45 million people beaten, starved, or worked to death, according to Frank Dikotter, a Hong Kong-based historian. “It ranks alongside the gulags and the Holocaust as one of the three greatest events of the 20th century…. It was like [Cambodian communist dictator] Pol Pot’s genocide multiplied 20 times over,” Dikotter recently wrote about the Great Leap Forward.

Source: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2208714-chinese-professor-fired-for-anti-mao-remarks/

We had the article on Imperial Japan, they were devils indeed but who was really worse on the Chinese?

I thought the Chinese Civil War happened during WWII;  someone certainly funded the Communists.

The good professor Deng is spot on. Send him over here to teach! 

[endicom]

I hope that being fired is all he suffers.

[HonestJohn]

The Chinese civil war happened immediately after WWII.  The Russians, instead of scrapping their war material they'd transferred to the Pacific theater after VE day, simply gave it all to the Chinese Communists.  That's what enabled them to win.

This is interesting as most Chinese texts, scholars, and newspapers already are critical of Mao for his Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.

I think it was because the professor said, "The only correct thing he did was to die."

That implies that Mao's victory over the Republican forced was incorrect and thus, the foundation of Communist China was also incorrect.  Which the Chinese Communist party would not tolerate.