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From Economic Observer Online<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When word came that Chairman Mao Zedong had passed away, Mao Yushi<\/a> was hand-copying a file in his office at the Ministry of Railways. He heard the sound of hurrying footsteps and people weeping outside his door.<\/p>\n

Mao put down his pen and went home immediately. “This was the biggest news I’d heard. I knew China would have a big change,” he recalled. At the same time, he said, he felt “a mixture of hollowness and sadness.”<\/p>\n

An era had ended. A country had a new opportunity to start over. It was a turning point for Mao Yushi, too. From the emotional darkness that had enveloped him for many years, he began to walk out to find a new fate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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