Leaps

February 1, 2012

REVOLUTIONARIES often consider time the enemy. So too in that country thousands of years old: China.

Probably this is why Mao Zhe-dong forbade Confucianism. The ancient Master once said that doing things slowly is not wrong, as long as one does not cease working. But to the great leader of the Chinese Revolution, Mao, being slow was the same as being 'anti Left.' In 1957, Mao introduced the term yuejin or 'leap', replacing the slogan 'maojin,' 'hastenin

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