https://www.scmp.com/rss/322851/feed Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, professor of history at University of California, Irvine, is the editor of The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China and the author of Eight Juxtapositions: China Through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com If Mao came back to life, what would he think of a People’s Republic of China filled with mega malls, millionaires and multiplexes? Many commentators, myself included, have explored this question, but it seems worth asking again as we find ourselves having just passed the 50th anniversary of the start of the chairman’s last campaign and nearing the 40th anniversary of his death. More specifically, given how different President Xi Jinping (習近平) has proved to be than his immediate predecessors, it... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1979318/what-would-mao-have-made-xi-jinpings-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1979318/what-would-mao-have-made-xi-jinpings-china?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Jun 2016 05:00:22 +0000