Talk:Becoming Madame Mao

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Interestingly, it seems that soon after imprisonment she became a symbol of evil while Mao was still revered. He was considered a god, while she a demon. I wonder what the average Chinese person thinks today of Mao and of his wife Comrade Madame Mao Jiang Ching? -- 05:56, 1 October 2006 196.216.12.167

A lot of work needed on this - not sure it's worth it Old Nol 16:21, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Two comments

1. The article has a "stub sign", in spite of its considerable length and amount of detail. The "This article about a historical novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it" sentence looks odd to me -- but I don't quite know whether the removal of a stub sign is the business of Someone Higher Up the wiki editor ladder?

2. I also notice that there's a "importance = low" sign, with which I disagree -- not so much by claiming that the novel is top class, but the article is important since the book is important, which it is, by being among the few serious attempts to come close to the very influential historical figure of Madame Mao. Slavatrudu (talk) 10:28, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sometimes articles retain their stub markers after they're no longer stubs. And the importance ranking for the Wikipedia novels project is meant to reflect degree of importance in the general broad history of novels... AnonMoos (talk) 15:11, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

3. Re "Becoming Madame Mao is a historical novel by Anchee Min detailing the life of Jiang Qing. ... In this story Min tries to cast a sympathetic light on one of the most controversial political figures in the People's Republic of China." I'd quibble with that. Would never characterize this portrait as sympathetic. She humanizes Madame Mao, yes. Sympathetic, no! 66.252.44.66 (talk) 20:26, 30 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]