Mao’s establishment of authority over China, his injection of patriotic pride into a land that had been appallingly sundered and humiliated by external and internal forces for a century and a half, and his romantic legend as a global revolutionary leader – all contribute to the moral and political legitimacy for which China’s leaders search.
Mao a instauré l’autorité en Chine, inspiré un sentiment de fierté patriotique à une nation terriblement divisée et humiliée par des puissances externes et internes durant un siècle et demi. Et le mythe romantique de leader révolutionnaire mondial le suivait.