¡@ ¡@ "I have only done two things in my life: one was that I drove Jiang Jie-shi to that small island of Taiwan, two was that I started off the cultural revolution." (the gist)

¡@ ¡@ Administering a country can be likened to playing a game of wei qi *.

¡@ ¡@ Mao Ze-dong was a "super master" wei qi player specializing in large terrain strategies.  He said that throughout his life he only did two things, it was as though he placed two wei qi stones achieving occupation of large terrains.

¡@ ¡@ On the first of October of 1949, the very sentence he spoke at the gate tower of Tian An Men : "From now on, the people of China are standing on their feet", has excited many descendants of Yan Di and Huang Di (ancestral emperors of China) throughout the country and those overseas, lifted the international status of Chinese of the whole world, revealed the spiritual disposition and raised the sense of ethnic self-respect of Chinese people.

¡@ ¡@ Mao Ze-dong's historical status of a meritorious state founder would never be smeared.

¡@ ¡@ Mao Ze-dong was a "strong man" among laymen, but he was not a "holy being" of a religion.

¡@ ¡@ As a layman, he was not a holy being.  It is impossible for a layman not to err.

¡@ ¡@ Mao Ze-dong started off the so called "cultural revolution" which in effect pushed all people of China into an ocean of flames and smelting hell; pushed China's national economy to the brink of collapse.

¡@ ¡@ The very person had left . . .

¡@ ¡@ The two big problems met by the motherland on unification: Tibet and Taiwan issues, were the two goblets of bitter wine brewed by him but were not tasted by himself in time.  They were his uncompleted undertakings.

* wei qi, go in Japanese, a board game between two players who alternately place black and white "stone" pieces on the board for the ultimate purpose of occupying the larger territory.