Maoism may have faded in China, but it still speaks to the world's poor | Pankaj Mishra

Aside from the bland icon of the new China, there is a much more dangerous Mao, whose ideas retain their vitality In 2008 in Beijing I met the Chinese novelist Yu Hua shortly after he had returned from Nepal, where revolutionaries inspired by Mao Zedong had overthrown a monarchy. A young Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution , Yu Hua, like many Chinese of his generation, has extremely