Describe why Mao feels that China's people being "poor and blank" is a good
thing.

Explanation:

He meant the culture was open to change.

And in fact did change it a great deal, though less than he had hoped.

Having visited both China and Japan, traditional religion has a grip on minds in Japan, but not China.

answer: this is because archeologists keep finding artefacts and ancient ruins dated more than 10000 to 15000 years, date around scientists said humans discovered language; which is at least mysterious as scientists always have said that is necessary to have a language to have architecture and some basic maths.

explanation: brainlest