Diehard Chairman Mao fans to mark his birthday with 'red songs'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : For Dai, the singing of "red songs" is a form of political activism.
52% : But once Deng Xiaoping launched his program of economic reforms in 1979, people started to criticize the cult of personality around their late leader amid a newfound atmosphere of political liberalism, he said.
50% : "People like [labor activist] Yue Xin at Peking University supported workers' rights, putting them into the category of Maoists," Hu said.
40% : "Dai doesn't believe that the Mao era - which spanned the political violence of the land reforms and Anti-Rightist Campaigns to the mass starvation that followed the disastrous Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the Gang of Four - should be dismissed simply as a time when everyone was as poor as the next person.

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