What I saw in 1980s in Beijing can show how wrong Mao was.

I was a graduate student in one of the best institutes in PRC in Beijing in early 1980s. To my psurprise, the insitute was almost empty in terms of reasearch although it is the best in China in the area.  

Some senior people were highly respected since they were educated or studied in US or Europe or Japan before early 1950s. But they were too old already. Their research was also obsolete.

People who were graduated between 1950 and 1966  had very limited acievements. Then it was people like me who were fresh graduates.

I am not a politician. But I can share a little story.  Chern SS gave some lectures in Beijing in differential geometry in 1980s. The audiences were the best faculty of China at that time, but no one understood him (people even didn't know the symbols on the blackboard Chern SS wrote).

Just remember, from 1949 to 1976, almost no one had good opportunity to study or to communicate with US scientists.  How can people do good research?

Basically, my professors in Beijing learned things just a few years earlier than I did. Gradually, we can do some research.

If Mao lived till 1986, I am sure that things will be much worse. 

If you believe that Mao is GREAT, it is fine. This is just what I saw,

 

所有跟帖： 

• Indian professors probably can understand him well at that time. -初心勿忘- ♀ (37 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 14:11:20

• Yes, you are right! -Euro-dollar- ♂ (482 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 14:23:38

• The starting speed of a rocket may be slower than a little bird. -初心勿忘- ♀ (195 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 14:41:13

• Without Deng and his folks, China may already collapse. -Euro-dollar- ♂ (661 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 14:50:21

• 改革开放的过程就是变成资本主义的过程。虽然还不完全。 -欲千北- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 14:51:07

• 如果你的家里人或亲戚或朋友有1980s在中国生活过的，你问他们最好。一个印度人说话你也当真，我只能说你需要好好学习，不光是认字。 -淡黄柳- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 14:37:04

• I was born in China in 1960s and I was a graduate in Beijing in -Euro-dollar- ♂ (266 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 14:43:45

• so believe yourself. what you saw are far more reliable that the -淡黄柳- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 14:46:15

• try to write what you think first. believe me, you can do it, af -淡黄柳- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 14:48:45

• I can be wrong sometime, but I trust my eye and my brain. -Euro-dollar- ♂ (69 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 14:53:21

• no, don't be shy, you are much smarter than the indian kid -淡黄柳- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 14:54:36

• Don't say that. -Euro-dollar- ♂ (322 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 15:00:39

• 数学泰斗陈省身是一个非常谦和、平易近人的人。 -五梅- ♀ (0 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 19:08:16

• 那一次听了他的讲座， -萧岚- ♂ (353 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 19:50:35

• Chern SS:陈省身 -五梅- ♀ (49 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 19:28:59

• well，毛‘s China had been isolated by the western for more than 29 -reader007- ♂ (140 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 20:37:11

• 这英文太差了！ -xisa1- ♂ (245 bytes) () 09/27/2018 postreply 22:06:11

• 英文差在哪儿？烦劳指正。 -聂耳- ♂ (0 bytes) () 09/28/2018 postreply 03:29:45

• 居然还有此问 -xisa1- ♂ (584 bytes) () 09/28/2018 postreply 08:11:38