| Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, July 28, 1995; also reported in the Chinese Shijie ribao, 28 July 1995. My thanks to Richard Kraus for this gem.
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| 277. Camille Paglia, "Introduction," The Revival Handbook, p. 1, quoting from her essay "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders." Paglia's introduction is reprinted as "The Artistic Dynamics of `Revival'" in her Vamps & Tramps, pp. 341-43.
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| 278. In regard to this process in the case of the Soviet Union, see Stephen Wheatcroft, "Unleashing the Energy of History, Mentioning the Unmentionable and Reconstructing Soviet Historical Awareness: Moscow 1987," Australian Slavonic and East European Studies 1, no. 1 (1987), referred to in Unger, Using the Past to Serve the Present, p. 270, n. 31; and David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb, pp. 30-35, 36-41, 60-69, and 398-411.
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| 279. The cult of Napoleon, for example, has flourished for more than 150 years. See Pieter Geyl, Napoleon For and Against, trans. Olive Renier; and Karl Marx, "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte," in Marx and Engels, Selected Works, vol. 1, pp. 221-311. Nancy N. Chen, who has done work with Chinese mental patients, tells me that while the mentally ill in the West may suffer from Napoleonic delusions of grandeur, in China some patients believe themselves to be Mao Zedong. Similarly, Mao is reported to appear as a spirit guide in shamanistic rituals.
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