Mad about Mao Chinese revisit leader in heroic light

From: The Boston Globe | Date: May 11, 1993| Author: Charles A. Radin, Globe Staff | Copyright information

SHAOSHAN, China -- Mao mania is back, not in the form of the fanatical Red Guards who terrorized millions while waving the little red book of Mao Zedong Thought during the Cultural Revolution, but among ordinary Chinese in all walks of life.

Bureaucrats sport Mao tie clasps. Young girls wear gold-heart pendants with his picture set in the center. Mao buttons sell briskly, and in many cities Mao good-luck charms hang from the rear-view mirror of almost every cab.

In Shaoshan, the...

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