Posts Tagged ‘Cultural Revolution’

Mao’s Mangoes

May 24, 2023

Mao Zedong loved a good mango. And, necessarily,
so did Chairman Mao’s people, even the very idea of a mango. Written by Vivian Jiang; directed by Kayu Leung; narrated by Pen-Pen Chen.

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Mao’s Big Swim

June 22, 2021

After announcing his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966, Mao Zedong swam across the Yangtze River. Mao had done that 10 years earlier, to prove his vitality, and he hoped it would work again. A Vox video.

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