Much of the emotional force of Mao’s revolution derived from the widespread sense of unequal treatment and humiliation by foreign powers, and this revolutionary fervor has never been properly interred. Just as Mao’s portrait has never been taken down from The Gate of Heavenly Peace, so whole elements of his revolution continue to survive in China’s institutions, ways of thinking, and modes of interacting with the world.
当然，中国的心灵受到过创伤，希望从以前给他们带来过痛苦的人那儿获得补偿，这一点值得同情。从这个意义上来说，中国和其他很多国家一样，可以说多少具有两种截然不同的性格。在民众中，受到外国不平等待遇和羞辱的感觉普遍存在，毛泽东革命的感情力量大半来源于此。这种革命的狂热从来就没有完全消逝过。就如毛泽东的画像从来没有从天安门上取下来过一样，毛泽东革命的所有元素也一直存留于中国的制度、思维方式以及与世界的互动模式中。这些元素就象隐性基因一样，有时会忽然重新表达出来。