Gekiga Legend of Mao Zedong

[MangaDex]

 

[SaucyJack]

I can feel the social credit flowing in my veins

 

[finalm]

Long overdue. I mean, if you're not going to be warming up the images of your greatest murderers, then what's even the point of running a genocidal dictatorship anyway?

 

[Narancia5]

Wait (one of) the dudes who made doraemon made this?!

 

[shuman5]

Historically accurate, not bad! My criticism is, that I don't like the trope of "the bad guys are drawn to look really REALLY dumb" while the hero is always on model, it does a disservice to the message it does to convey about the revolution.

 

[Narancia5]

Historically accurate, not bad! My criticism is, that I don't like the trope of "the bad guys are drawn to look really REALLY dumb" while the hero is always on model, it does a disservice to the message it does to convey about the revolution.

I mostly blame showa era mangas for constantly doing this. Later on, we do see some dockworkers drawn that way at first but end up siding with the revolution

 

[thirty7timeslucky]

a somewhat flat view of famed catgirl mao zedong's rise to power; somewhere between propaganda and fanfiction.

further reading:

chang and halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story" is what i studied in history class.

Was Mao Really a Monster: The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story" is the rebuttal to above.

according to this reddit post,"Mao: The Real Story" by Alexander Pantsov and Steven Levine may also be worth checking out, although i haven't read it.