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Figure 8.
"The Light of China."
Oil Painting by Hou Rong, He Duojun, Wu Huamin, Cheng Guoying, Fan Huaizhang, and Zeng Tingzhong.

 

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Figure 9a.
Pulp magazines devoted to Mao: Three magazines typical of the kind of publications produced for
mass readership around the time of the centenary and available at book stalls throughout the country.

 

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Figure 9b.
Pulp magazine cover: 
True Tales from the Top
(Eyewitness accountstrue and
authoritativefully detailedreadable
and reliable) How Did they Edit 
Quotations
from Chairman Mao,
 the Book That Took the
World by Storm? The Political Storms
Weathered by Hu Qiaomu Chairman Mao
Calls Major General Ye Fei to Beidaihe for
Secret Talks The Turmoil Surrounding the
Seizing of Power in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs during the CultRev
The Truth About Xu Shiyou being
Investigated in Yan'an Ho Chi Minh's Secret
Visit to See Mao Zedong at Lushan
(Hualing Publishers, October 1993)
Figure 9c.
Pulp magazine cover: 
Morningstar Lily
Mao Zedong During the Military Defeat
of August . . . Text of Deng Xiaoping's Speech
on the Question of Hong Kong Published in Full
All the Details of the Americans Taken Hostage
by Iran The Life-and-Death Love of the
Sister of Sheng Shicai, ''King of Xinjiang"
Mao Zedong Invited Him to Swim the Yangtse
The Secret of How Lin Biao Found Favor
Revealed (Huhehaote, September 1993)

 

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Figure 10.
The Analects,
 by Confucius. Published by the Cultural Relics
Administration of Qufu County, Confucius' birthplace in Shandong,
this red-plastic covered version of the Master's sayings was produced
in imitation of Mao's "Little Red Book" in the early 1980s.
Figure 11.
Invitation to Zhou Pengfei's 1991 exhibition
of imitation-Mao calligraphy (gold lettering on
a red background).

 

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Figure 12.
Mao Zedong: A selection of the Chairman's signatures
from 
The Great Compendium of Mao Zedong's Calligraphy.
Figure 13.
"Learn from Comrade Lei Feng":
Mao's 5 March 1963 calligraphic inscription for the PLA's red samaritan
along with a dog (Bassett)-eared image of the revolutionary martyr
used for promotional purposes by the Changsha Municipal Advertising
Company. (Author's photograph, Changsha, June 1992)

 

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Figure 14.
Stalls selling Mao trinkets and memorabilia along the approach to Mao's
birthplace. (Author's photograph, Shaoshan, June 1992)
Figure 15.
Being shaken down by Tang Ruiren, proprietor of the "Mao Family
Restaurant" (the name of which features in the background)
situated opposite Mao's birthplace in Shaoshan, Hunan.
(Author's photograph, Shaoshan, June 1992)

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