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Are you from the US? How often have you read stories as such for the Kent State massacre, the Battle of Blair Mountain, or the drowning of the hundreds in the Seine in Paris?
It does more than show what was at a point in time, it is powerful propaganda, as your comment shows. Not only do you use "Mao era", but also imply that it was awful. Which is quite a big stroke used.
Besides that there are ways to frame scenes, the one's in the three body problem have the problem that they are leading and are part of fiction, yet people take them for depictions of reality and construct their idea of what was from it.
Within the CPC the Cultural Revolution - rightfully - got critiqued quite a bit and the phrase in regards to Mao of "70% good, 30% bad" is still common.
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