From globeandmail.com:
A Canadian surgeon will become the focus of a televised extravaganza in China next month as the Communist regime pushes a new morality campaign to combat the persistent climate of corruption and greed in the country.
Norman Bethune, who died in 1939 while helping Communist soldiers at the battlefront in northern China, will be lionized in an unprecedented 20-part prime-time series on China’s biggest television channel.
The series, sponsored by the propaganda division of the Shanghai government, is a key element in China’s latest effort to revive a “socialist sense of honour” in a country where ideology has faded and morality has eroded. [Full Text]
