'Maoism took root in very diverse places and moments due to its multi-faceted, contradictory and malleable nature'
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Le Monde (France)
Le Monde English
12 Sept, 17:00over 9 days22 Sept, 02:00
How it spread - 2 original reports
Sat, 12 September 2026
1 report- Le Monde (France)17:00first to report
« Mao, l’encombrant héritage » (7/7). Cinquante ans après la mort du Grand Timonier, Julia Lovell, professeure d’histoire et de littérature chinoises à l’université Birkbeck, à Londres, retrace, dans un entretien au « Monde », la diffusion mondiale du maoïsme. Selon elle, cette idéologie a bénéficié d’une contingence historique, l’ère de la décolonisation, qui a fait de Mao la figure de proue de l’anti-impérialisme.
Tue, 22 September 2026
1 report- Le Monde English02:00
'Mao's Fraught Legacy' (7/7). Julia Lovell, a Chinese history and literature professor at Birkbeck, University of London, discusses how Maoism spread. The ideology, she says, benefited from the broader decolonization era, with Mao seen as the foremost anti-imperialist figure.