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Lei Feng
Introduction
Context
- Soldier of People's Liberation Army
- Subject to nationwide Propaganda Campaign
- Model Citizen
MAO ZEDONG
- Great Leap Forward in 1958 to boost China's economy
- Failed and resulted decline in agricultural output
- Millions of deaths
- Mao's attempt to reassert his beliefs in 1966 was the Cultural Revolution
- Also failed and resulted in 1.5 million deaths
DENG XIAOPING
- Came to rule in 1978
- Reformer who lead China to market economy
Impact of Lei Feng - Deng XiaoPing Era
Backgroud
Impact of Lei Feng - Mao Zedong Era
- Promoted entreprenuership, consumerism and prosperity
- "Mama wants me to study Lei Feng" 1982 ---->
- Live in new house
- Modern comforts such as TV
- Fashionable clothing and luxury items
- Impact was Lei Feng promoted Deng's ideas
- Born in Hunan district in 1940
- Orphaned as child
- Dedicated to becoming soldier of People's Liberation Army and suceeded at age of 20
- Died at age 22
Bibliography
- Subject of propaganda campaign to promote Mao
- Mao's true motivation for Cultural Revolution was to gain control of party
- Reports of Lei Feng spread in education system
- Study groups
- Posters such as "Chairman Mao's Good soldier - Lei Feng" 1963---->
- “I feel that a real revolutionary is never selfish. Whatever he does is always for the benefit of the people… It is my wish to devote my life to the infinite cause of serving the people."
- influenced youths.
As a young soldier explained, "In today's society, a true hero is one with money. Who truly respect Party members?"
Wang Heping and Ying Shengqi, Qingnian zhanshi jingji zhuangkuang fenxi (Analysis of young soldiers' economic condition), Qingnian yanjiu (Youth studies), no. 5, 1996, p. 30.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_Feng
- http://nacs.niasconferences.net/datadir/REGfiles/04b8763713c050b3d6b23f9d1aea94c5.pdf
- http://www.newyorker.com/news/evan-osnos/fact-checking-a-chinese-hero
- http://chineseposters.net/themes/leifeng.php
- http://english.cntv.cn/special/chinastrength/leifeng/index.shtml
- http://news.yahoo.com/chinese-communist-hero-lei-feng-not-beloved-us-081441055.html
Red Scarf Girl
"But grandma, we have to get rid of those old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits. Chairman Mao said they're holding us back"
Ji-Li Jiang's Memior, Red Scarf Girl, 1998
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