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Is China Losing Something in Modernization?
Under mausi dong's rule, millions of chinese people died. Some of his disastrous economic and social policies resulted in mass starvation and repression. But there is no doubt that his intense effort to standardize the chinese language was effective. It helped take china from a largely agrarian, illiterate country to a vastly more literate and increasingly urbanized one.