The man who was secretary to Mao and an outspoken advocate of freedom in China was 101
was one Li Rui could not ignore. Nor did he want to. When Mao Zedong sent a plane to fetch him to their first private meeting, in 1958, he was 41 and rising fast. His position as deputy minister of water resources and hAll the same, doubts niggled. His last effort to join Mao had turned sour. After his hard, keen trek on foot at the end of the 1930s from his home province, Hunan, to Yanan, Mao’s rebel stronghold, he had started writing editorials in the revolutionary newspaper.
Eventually he wrote five books on Mao, from birth to death, turning himself into a valued historian of those years. Yet the point of history was to learn from it and face up to it, and the party would not. Each leader, from more open-minded Deng Xiaoping onwards, was battered with his opinions and demands. They were drafted in his centre of operations, a study in which it was impossible to cram any more books, and from which he angrily shooed away anyone who filmed what he was writing.
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