China’s Destroyer God

Mao was fond of saying that the Chinese people were “first of all, poor, and secondly blank,” but getting the Chinese people to that state involved quite a bit of work on Mao’s part.

Unlike earlier intellectuals whose rebellious nerves wavered later in life, Mao’s drive to destroy and dismantle only increased after the Communist victory.

In this period, China gave English the phrase “brainwashing,” or xinao (洗脑).

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