 | See
Shanghai wenhua yishu bao,
24 March 1989, quoted in Zheng Youxian, "Shixi `Mao Zedongre' xingcheng he fazhande yuanyin," p. 20.
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| 3. See Mao Zedong, "XueQinyuanchun," in
Mao zhuxi shici (zhushi),
p. 90. For this English translation, see "Snowto the tune of
Qin yuan chun,
" February 1936 in Mao Tse-tung,
Poems,
pp. 23-24. Although the poem was dated 1936, Jerome Ch'en in
Mao and the Chinese Revolution,
pp. 340-41, argues that the poem was most likely written in 1944-45.
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| 4. See Tang Wan'er, "Chongqing Dagongbao pi Mao yiwenMao Zedong yongxueci fengbo," pp. 53-54.
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| 5. See Ninian Smart,
Mao,
pp. 92-94; and Reinhard Bendix, "Reflections on Charismatic Leadership,"
Asian Survey
7, no. 7 (1967), pp. 349-51, quoted in Stuart R. Schram, "Party Leader or True Ruler? Foundations and Significance of Mao Zedong's Personal Power," in S.R. Schram, ed.,
Foundations and Limits of State Power in China,
pp. 243-44.
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| 6.
Xunzhao Mao Zedong.
This also happened to be the title of one of the earliest books on the then-nascent Mao revival. See Wu Fangze et al.,
Xunzhao Mao Zedong.
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| 7. See Zhang Xixian, "Lüelun Zhongguo jin xiandaishishangde wuci xunzhao Mao Zedong," pp. 89-95. Zhang lists five periods during which the Chinese have "searched for Mao Zedong." They are: (1) on the eve of the Zunyi Congress in 1935; (2) at the outbreak of the war with Japan; (3) on the founding of the People's Republic; (4) during the Cultural Revolution; and (5) following 4 June 1989.
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| 8. See "The Cult of Mao Tse-tung" in Maurice Meisner,
Marxism, Maoism and Utopianism,
pp. 155-83. For a bibliography of works related to the first Mao Cult, see pp. 248-49.
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| 9. "Jiehunde geming liwu" in Cheng Shi, Shan Chuan, et al., eds.,
Wenge xiaoliao ji,
p. 13.
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| 10. For a short history of
Quotations from Chairman Mao,
see Zhongguo Mao Zedong sixiang lilun yu shijian yanjiuhui lishihui, ed.,
Mao Zedong sixiang cidian,
pp. 589-90; and Ma Linchuan, "
Mao zhuxi yulu
tanyuan," pp. 50-52.
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| 11. "Zhongyang xuanchuanbu wenjian, Zhongxuanfa [1979] 5 hao: Guanyu tingzhi faxing
Mao zhuxi yulu
de tongzhi, 1979 nian 2 yue 12 ri," reprinted in
Tushu faxing gongzuo wenjian huibian (1979
), pp. 9-10.
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| 12. Guojia chuban shiye guanliju, "Zhuanfa Zhongxuanbu guanyu tingzhi faxing
Mao zhuxi yulu
de tongzhi, (79) chubanzi di 83 hao, 1979 nian 2 yue 20 ri,"
Tushu faxing gongzuo wenjian huibian (1979),
p. 8. In the early 1990s, one artist formulated an innovative way of recycling a portion of the Mao heritage. In his 1993-94 work "Post-Testament" (
Houyue
) the Beijing/New York artist Xu Bing used high-quality, acid-free "political document paper" (
zhengwen zhi
) manufactured prior to the Cultural Revolution for the express purpose of printing foreign-language editions of Mao's
Selected Works
and poetry. Xu found a cache of this paper in the warehouse of the Beijing Foreign Languages Press and was able to acquire an amount of it for his own work: hand-bound volumes containing a nonsense text.
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