 | 169. Guo Wenjian, "Jinri Shaoshan `ganhai' mang," p. 24.
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| 170. For a picture of Tang and her husband holding up the photograph in front of Mao's birthplace, see William Lindesay,
Marching with Mao,
opposite p. 96.
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| 171. Going one step farther, Hong Kong entrepreneurs invited a chef whose Changsha teacher had once made a meal for the Chairman in 1964 to create a "Chairman Mao banquet" for the territory's gourmands. See Cheng Lai, "Mao zhuxi taocan." In Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, one restaurant called its "red cooked meat" dish (
hongshaorou
), "Runzhi Brain-Enrichment Food" (
Runzhi bunaoshan
) in honor of Mao, whose
zi
was "Runzhi.'' See Li Yong, "Zouguo yige lunhui zhan zai weiren shenhou."
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| 172. The Shanghai artist Yu Youhan's floral reinterpretation of this photograph is used as the cover image of Jochen Noth et al., eds.,
China Avant-Garde,
and is reproduced on p. 180 of the text.
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| 173. Yu Xuejun, "Xiaoxiang xunji Mao Zedong," p. 4.
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| 174. Guo Weijian, "Jinri Shaoshan `ganhai' mang," p. 24; and Jan Wong, "Around Mao's Centennial."
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| 175. The dimensions of the main slab, on which the poem Mao wrote upon returning to Shaoshan in 1959 was carved, reflected significant dates in Mao's life. It was 12.26 meters tall, a measurement that denoted Mao's birthday on 26 December; 9.9 meters wide, marking Mao's demise on 9 September; and 0.83 meters thick, indicating the age at which Mao died. See Yi Jun, "Furongguolide `Mao Zedong re,'" p. 46. During the Cultural Revolution, the mathematics of Mao statues generally reflected a similarly esoteric code.
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| 176. At the unveiling of this, Mao Xinyu had his happy encounter with Jiang Zemin.
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| 177. Yi Jun, "Furongguolide `Mao Zedong re,'" pp. 45-46.
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| 178. For more details on how the Party refurbished the corporate image of Mao, see "Shishi qiushide xuanchuan Mao Zedong tongzhi," pp. 92-95.
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| 179. For illustrations, see Lin Jianhui and Dai Chixian, "Shaoshan jixing," pp. 22-27. See also Schell,
Mandate of Heaven,
p. 283.
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| 180. Uli Schmetzer, "Cashing in on Mao's Name in Hunan Shaoshan."
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