Mao the Poet
Studio 360 | Jan 11, 2011
Mao Zedong believed in the radical transformation of every aspect of Chinese life. "Art" under Mao meant extolling the glories of communism.Sarah Campbell discovered a strange footnote to Mao's biography: he was a poet, and not altogether a bad one –- but he might have had himself persecuted as a reactionary.
