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Americans? Changing View of China Time Asia magazine has again released its November appraisal issue of “Asian heroes” who have helped shape the continent?s future over the past 60 years. The Chinese on the list, most of whom are very familiar to their countrymen, have sparked a great sensation in the whole nation. Wen Dao, a Beijing-based observer, looks at the profound changes in Westerners? comprehension of China over the past decades and shares his expectations for the future. The globe is a home village where people from different races and with different beliefs and ideologies coexist. As time goes by, and as exchanges intensify and technology develops, the world population is getting closer, sharing similar views and perspectives. Recently, intensive media reviews have focused on Time Asia magazine?s list of its top Asian heroes, including 56 people who have helped Asia rise “from poverty to powerhouse, from imitator to being imitated” in the past six decades. The late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, Victor and William Fung from Hong Kong?s Li Fung Group, Taiwan Acer Group?s founder Stan Shih and Yahoo?s co-creator Jerry Yang are on the list. Also named are the mainland?s Olympic gold medallist-turned-businessman Li Ning, legendary action star Bruce Lee and popular actress Gong Li. They are separately listed in the categories of nation builders, artists and thinkers, business leaders, athletes and explorers. Being the only honored nation builder from China, Deng is hailed for his contributions to setting off China?s economic reform, which has been widely accepted and has made great achievements. Time Asia explained that it chose Deng instead of Mao Zedong, the founder of the People?s Republic of China, because “although the name of Mao is known throughout the world, it is Deng who inherited the mantle of a Chinese hero.” “While Mao is now mainly associated with the idea of revolutionary excess and periods of c