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american revolutionary: kid gloves and “likes”
…Are our rebels and would-be revolutionaries merely play acting as they embrace the consumer cycle, media spotlight and wine, sex and song ethos?… Will an ascetic revolutionary leader, such as a Lenin, Gandhi or Mao, appear on the American scene? … Continue reading
mao: little red book of libido
The image Mao presented to his followers was that of the libidoless leader. He taught the youth of China that love…is a “psychosomatic activity which consumes energy and wastes time.”… …Whatever the reality, the image Mao presented to his followers … Continue reading
revolutionary asceticism
Revolutionary asceticism. Mao Zedong’s Yangtze River swim was based on his youthful conversion to the very un-Chinese notion of physical education. He and his revolutionary companions, he said, “became ardent physical culturalists.” In his autobiography Mao described their regimen: “We … Continue reading
mao: ascetic revolutionary
…The image Mao presented to his followers was that of a libidoless leader. He taught the youth of China that love…is a “psychosomatic activity which consumes energy and wastes time.”… …In both the West and in India there existed a … Continue reading
the lucky seventy
China’s imperial tradition. It’s hard to throw two thousand plus years of history under the bus. Even Mao Zedong once confided to Edgar Snow that it was difficult for the Chinese to ” overcome the habits of 3,000 years of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Boxer Rebellion China, Chin Shih Huang Ti, China Imperial tradition, Clare Boothe, Dowager Empress, Dr. Joseph Needham, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Edgar Snow, Emperor Kuang-Hsu, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mao Zedong, Ming Dynasty, Ming Tombs Dam, Peng Chen and Mao Zedong Ming Tombs, Temple of Heaven Beijing
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great leaps forward and back
Its hard to get around two thousand plus years of imperial tradition in sixty odd years of the People’s Republic of China. Even Mao Zedong was somewhat indebted to the weight of the past… For Mao Zedong the major public … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Brian Brake China, Brian Brake photography, dais at T'ien An Men, Emperor Yung Lo fifteenth century, Forbidden City China, Gate of Heavenly Palace China, Guanting Reservoir Project China, Hung Wu first Ming emperor, Kublai Khan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong May Day Parade, Sun Yat-sen, Wang Sen Guanting Reservoir
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no contradiction in the long run
Through the centuries the Chinese people have acquired a deeply ingrained respect for authority. Conversely they believe that government ins not the creature of one man, nor the instrument for the strongest will or personality of the day regardless of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Andy Warhol, Cult of mao Zedong, Dennis Hopper, Dr. Jerome Ch'en, Feng Menbo, Hung Wu first Ming emperor, Lin Piao, Lin Piao Little Red Book, Linda Jaivin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mao On Contradiction, Mao Zedong, Maoism, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De
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mulberry children in the middle kingdom
The Chinese Communists are not prevented, in the popular view, from inheriting the imperial mantle merely because they lack blue blood. That most rational of sages, Confucius, established 2,500 years ago that nobility depends not on birth or wealth but … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna May Wong, China Cultural Revolution, China Little Red Book, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabo, Chuang-tzu Chinese philosopher, Edgar Snow, Jian Ping, Josef von Sternberg, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mao Zedong, Marlene Dietrich, Paris Commune 1871, rod stewart, Shanghai Express film, Sun Yat-sen, Susan Cooper Morgan, Travis Banton, Wen Jiabao
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little red books: messianic with the lord of chin
The emperors’ mandate was to rule “all under Heaven,” which meant not only China but the surrounding barbarian areas that still awaited the civilizing influence of China. After all, the Chinese name for China means “Middle Kingdom” and embodies the … Continue reading
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Tagged Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek, China Cultural Revolution, China Little Red Book, China magazine Red Flag, China Three Constantly Read Articles, China Three Old Articles, dowager empress Tzu Hsi, Edgar Snow, Jiang Jiehong, John Zorn, John Zorn Shanghai, Jonathan Cape, Lan Ping Blue Duckweed, Lan Ping Mao Zedong wife, Li Li-san early communist leader, Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong personality cult, Mao's son An-lung, Norman Bethune, Sun Yat-sen, Wang Hai-jung, Yao Wenyuan, Zhang Side
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