CULTURE AND POLITICS China exhibits its latest assault on human dignity*

 




“Fair is foul, and foul is fair;hover through the fog and filthy air.”
Macbeth, Scene 1, Act 1




China has undergone wrenching changes since paramount leader Deng Xiaoping declared that “to get rich is glorious”. Deng, who succeeded Mao Zedong after the Chairman died in 1976, put China on the road to prosperity.
Mao was genuinely surprised when the Great Leap Forward, intended to make China an econom…

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