Talk:Zeng Junchen

A fact from Zeng Junchen appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 February 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Zeng Junchen, one of 20th-century China's most successful drug lords, started out selling salt?

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Many thanks for this engrossing and informative article![edit]

Many thanks to Kingoflettuce for an engrossing article that illuminates how China worked at that time. I made some light edits, such as tightening and cutting words that didn't seem necessary. I added some links. I hope this is ok.

One question: is there any information about how Zeng was treated in the early 1950s after the communist takeover? It seems amazing that the King of Opium and a strong supporter of Chiang wasn't taken out and shot! Obviously things changed after 1978, but do your sources explain why his home was turned into a national monument. (By the way, how could the "local" government make it a "national" monument.)

Cheers ch (talk) 18:22, 27 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@CWH: Thanks, glad to know my efforts are with a read. You are right, that's an error on my part, it was a local monument, on the basis that it was some famous guy's home. Changing it! Kingoflettuce (talk) 00:08, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]