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Sep 11, 2026
Mao More Than Ever
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23:51Jeremiah JenneHOST
nostalgia, right? For even people who live through it.
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23:53Jeremiah JenneHOST
I have met many people who are of an age and this was true living in the Hutongs of Beijing or others who are in there now would be in their 70s and 80s.
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24:03Jeremiah JenneHOST
And they represent that not small proportion of that generation that has this sort of at least under Mao, we were all poor equally, or there was no corruption under Mao, by which, of course, they mean that there was corruption, but it didn't run you over with its Ferrari, you know, as you're walking back from the wet market.
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24:26Jeremiah JenneHOST
And I think that was particularly true, that kind of feeling, that sentiment was particularly true in the late 90s, 2000s, when the corruption was so visible in China.