Mao and his intolerance to criticism

Lives of great men remind us We can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) History: His story. The story of man, his struggles, his progresses; his achievements and his downfalls. History is made by the unfolding yarn of time, cutting its way through existence like a glacier piercing its way through mountains. As defined in its simplest terms, it is the …

…because strategy was never clear, and the designated enemy was always shifting shape. A tumult that shook seismographs half a world away, even as it convulsed neighboring parts of Asia, was forever eluding comprehension at its epicenter. This month, on the 30th anniversary of the drama's earliest, ominous public stirrings, China's official memory of those 10 years is like a blank page. No monuments or museums dignify an episode whose only heroes, ultimately, were victims.'