Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung   July 9, 1957  [Speech at a
conference of cadres in Shanghai.]  In March I spoke here to a
number of Party cadres. A hundred days have passed since then.
During these hundred days a great change in the situation has
occurred. We have fought a battle with the bourgeois Rightists,
and the political consciousness of the people has risen, and
indeed to a considerable degree. We expected this at the time.
For instance, I said here that when people started criticizing,
or in other words, when the fire started burning, wouldn't that
cause pain? We must toughen our scalps and bear it, I added.
This part of the body is called the head, and the skin on it is
called the scalp. Toughening one's scalp and bearing it means,
when you criticize me, I toughen my scalp and listen for a
while. Afterwards, I'll analyse what you say and make a reply,
accepting what is right and rebutting what is wrong.  We must
believe that in China, as everywhere else in the world, the
majority of the people are g