{"574681":{"#nid":"574681","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Mao\u0027s long shadow: A difficult discussion for China","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Fei-Ling Wang was interviewed and quoted in \u0026quot;Mao\u0026#39;s long shadow: A difficult discussion for China\u0026quot; in \u003Cstrong\u003EAgence France-Presse\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eabout Mao Zedong\u0026#39;s legacy in China.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUnder President Xi, the government has gone to ever greater lengths to make sure everyone says the same thing when they talk about Mao.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe most powerful leader since the Great Helmsman himself, Xi has cautioned against both \u0026quot;historical nihilism\u0026quot; and \u0026quot;neo-liberalism\u0026quot;, an implicit warning to bury both praise and criticism of Mao\u0026#39;s era.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;There is an officially-induced and sanctioned amnesia about Mao\u0026#39;s true record,\u0026quot; said Fei-Ling Wang, a China expert at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/news\/world\/mao-s-long-shadow-a-difficult-discussion-for-china\/article\/474307\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"32788","created_gmt":"2016-09-09 10:54:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-13 14:48:36","author":"Anna Cathryn Finch","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/news\/world\/mao-s-long-shadow-a-difficult-discussion-for-china\/article\/474307","dateline":{"date":"2016-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-09-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"481901":{"id":"481901","type":"image","title":"Fei Ling Wang","body":null,"created":"1452024000","gmt_created":"2016-01-05 20:00:00","changed":"1539024099","gmt_changed":"2018-10-08 18:41:39","alt":"Portrait of Dr. Fei-Ling Wang","file":{"fid":"205814","name":"10p1000-p10-003_500wforweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/10p1000-p10-003_500wforweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/10p1000-p10-003_500wforweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":37876,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/10p1000-p10-003_500wforweb.jpg?itok=3PPfI4r1"}}},"media_ids":["481901"],"groups":[{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"802","name":"China"},{"id":"3906","name":"foreign policy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}