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To rationalize the ideology during Mao Ze-dong's era is really not easy at all. During the reign of Mao Ze-dong at the fifties, sixties and the seventies until his death, the whole Chinese society was dominated by only one kind of ideology. The crazy excitement of the cultural revolution could only be the special "product" of a mono-doctrine. If anybody dared doubt Mao Ze-dong's ideology, or Mao Ze-dong himself in anyway, he would be penalized either heavily by blood shedding or execution, or lightly by sending to jail to perform supervised hard labour. The Zhang Zhi-xin and Yu Luo-ke incidents are the best testimony. The abnormal death of China's President Liu Shao-qi had indeed been a politically sad and startling news known all over the world. During Mao Ze-dong's era, there was a saying: In modern times, the entry and preaching of western missionaries in China, were regarded as imperialism's "cultural invasion" and "religious invasion" to China. To people overseas, this sounds more like "political jokes". Nevertheless, in the fifties of the twentieth century, this indeed was treated as an "irrefutably described" fact within the communist iron curtain of China. |
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