Mao Zedong Wouldn’t Like Chinese Society Today, Rittenberg Says

China has become a place Mao Zedong would not like “because it has lost its soul,” said Sidney Rittenberg Sr., who worked as a translator for the former leader of the world’s most-populous nation.

Mao “would like that China’s a great power, but he would definitely not like the kind of society -- they’ve kind of lost their soul,” Rittenberg said in an interview with Bloomberg Television yesterday in Beijing. “The old spirit of helping one another, thinking of the general good” has diminished, Rittenberg said.