Mao's Legacy

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…in the twentieth century. The legacy of Mao could draw into two spheres: one was the admirable and loveable figurehead of uniting the mainland China, resisting western imperialists and Japanese invasions, developing a centralised bureaucratic socialist government structure, and most importantly, uniting the Chinese people to "stand up". In the other sphere, Mao responsibilities of the disturbance and disaster of the Great Leap Forward and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution were another legacy of Mao.