Reinvigorating Mao.(Mao Zedong)

From: The New American | Date: April 17, 2006| Author: Hoar, William P. | Copyright information

ITEM: "After three decades of free-market economic reforms, China's leaders are re-emphasizing the study of Marxism and urging ruling party members not to turn their back on the communist ideology that's guided the nation since Mao Zedong's day," reports the Knight Ridder Service in the (Vermont) Times Argus for February 26.

ITEM: The San Francisco Chronicle for February 26 reported: "Thirty years after Mao Zedong 's death, Mao kitsch is the new cool, and young men are w...

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