Weaponized Statecraft Series | Mao at Lushan, 1959 In the storm of the Great Leap’s setbacks, Mao did not fold—he listened. At Lushan he turned mistakes into lessons, errors into curriculum, and criticism into a method of survival. He named two illnesses—touchiness and wavering—and prescribed two remedies: endurance and rectification. He defended the communes, corrected... Continue Reading →