`:``So in terms of weighting, this opening sectionm when describing a leader who most regard as in the same category as HItler, Stalin or Pol Pot describes in various terms as a genius, calligrapher and a deity.``   Just because the intro doesn't conform to your believes doesn't make it invalid. Most people? LMAO you mean Westerners who never set foot in China? Many people in China still regard Mao as a savior of the Chinese state, and thus the intro stands. There's no need to introduce Mao as a cardboard cutout villain the Western academia like to portray, which implies an ethnocentric systematic bias. Let's also not forget the various murderous right-wing dictators sponsored by the US that hardly get the Adolf treatment, eg Chiang Kai-shek, Suharto, Pinochet etc.    `