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140. See, for example, the lengthy report by one of the editors of
China Has Brought Forth a Mao Zedong,
Zhao Zhichao, "Yingmian zoulai Mao Xinyu,"
Qingnian yuebao,
pt. 1, pp. 11-13, and pt. 2, pp. 14-16. Mao's other grandchildren, the children of Li Min and Li Na, enjoyed scant public attention.
141. Zhao Zhichao, "Yingmian zoulai Mao Xinyu," pt. 1, p. 12. For more examples of Mao Xinyu's Mao-mania, see Zhao Zhichao, "Yingmian zoulai Mao Xinyu," pt. 2, p. 14, et passim. Mao's poem "Dielianhua: da Li Shuyi" is dated 11 May 1957.
142. Mao Xinyu, "Tashi xunchang baixing jia," referred to in Zhao Zhichao, "Yingmian zoulai Mao Xinyu," pt. 1, p. 12. Mao lived in the Juxiang Study of the Fengzeyuan complex until 1968, thereafter moving to the "Swimming Pool," also in Zhongnanhai.
143. See the opening sequence of the fifth episode (
Shushan youlu
) of "Mao Zedong."
144. Li Yanchun, "Yeye bainian danchen sunzi zhuangzhong xuanshi: Mao Xinyu guangrong rudang." This article is accompanied by a winsome picture of the bloated Mao Xinyu making a pledge before the Party flag and dressed in what appears to be aluminum foil.

 

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145. Zhao Zhichao, "Yingmian zoulai Mao Xinyu," pt. 2, p. 16.
146. Ibid., pt. 1, p. 11.
147. "Mao Xinyu zouchu shufang rongru shehui."
148. "Buzuo shengyi dang gexing; Maosun dasuan chu changpian."
149. For an example of this from a "democratically minded" dissident, see "Mini-Mao" and also the use of Maoist slogans by the prostitute in "Are You Ready?" in Sang Ye's volume of interviews with Chinese in Australia,
The Year the Dragon Came.
For a stunning example of Maoist-style rhetoric from a leading group of exiled Chinese dissidents, see Chai Ling, ''Qing zunzhong lishi"; Ruan Ming, "Zenyang `chonggu' lishi?"; Bai Meng, "Tiananmen shenpan"; and Ni Yuxian, "Cong fouding Chai Ling dao fouding Minyun," pp. 31-49.
150. See Li Tuo, "Resisting Writing," in Liu Kang and Xiaobing Tang, eds.,
Politics, Ideology and Literary Discourse in Modern China,
pp. 273-77; and Mengke's work, referred to in Jianying Zha,
China Pop,
p. 46.
151. See Richard C. Kraus,
Brushes with Power,
pp. 65-74.
152. "Zhouzhi luocheng Mao Zedong shoushu `Changhenge' beilang."
153. Leys, "Aspects of Mao Tse-tung," p. 63. For recent and glowing Mainland appraisals of the "Mao hand" see Li Shuting,
Mao Zedong shufa yishu
and Wang Hebin,
Xingcao shusheng Mao Zedong
; also Liu Tao, "Mao Zedong yu shufa," pp. 59-61.
154. Sponsored by Wu Shuqing, the post-4 June president of Beijing University, Zhou's calligraphy was exhibited at the Chinese Painting Research Academy (
Zhongguohua yanjiuyuan
) on the Third Ring Road in northwest Beijing.
155. Wang Yue and Li Guijun, eds.,
Mao Zedong moji dazidian.
156. "
Paoda silingbuwode diyi zhang dazibao
" was the title of Mao's "big character poster" written on 5 August 1966 in support of the student rebels led by Nie Yuanzi of Beijing University. Its publication led to heightened attacks on and the overthrow of the "Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping Bourgeois Headquarters." See "Fabiao paoda silingbu";
Mao Zedong sixiang wansui
in Okura henshu * keikaku, ed.,
Mao zhuxi wenxuan, Mao Zedong sixiang wansui,
p. 36; and Zhongguo Mao Zedong sixiang lilun yu shijian yanjiuhui lishihui, ed.,
Mao Zedong sixiang cidian,
p. 593.
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