Mao yushi biography
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Mao Yushi 茅于轼, a declared liberal economist, is one of China’s best known advocates of government policy reform and an outspoken critic of the neo-Maoist left.
Mao yushi biography
Hailed as a ‘national treasure’ 国宝 by his fans, Mao has also attracted a significant number of detractors, some of whom accuse him of being a ‘traitor to the Chinese [Han] people’ 汉奸.
Mao was born in Nanjing in 1929.
The son of a railway engineer and the nephew of a bridge engineer, Mao Yushi studied mechanical engineering at Jiaotong University (then Chiao Tung University) in Shanghai. After graduating, he worked at the Qiqihar Rail Bureau in Heilongjiang province and, in 1955, joined the Academy of Railway Sciences in Beijing.
He was branded a Rightist in 1958, sent to the Shandong countryside for labor reform in 1960, and was subjected to abuse during the Cultural Revolution.
He turned to economics in the reform years of the late 1970s, employing the mathematics, macro-economics and English