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November 21, 2012
Previous Cult: “Ten thousand melodies cannot express our boundless hot love for you”
including Beijing Textile Factory, where I was then living. The workers at the factory held a huge ceremony, rich in the recitation of Mao’s words, to welcome the arrival of the mango, then sealed the fruit in wax, hoping to preserve it for posterity. The mangoes became sacred relics, objects of veneration. The wax-covered fruit was placed on an altar in the factory auditorium, and workers lined up to file past it, solemnly bowing as they walked by. -- Abandoned Footnotes: “Ten thousand melodies cannot express our boundless hot love for you”: the Cult of Personality in Mao’s China
Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 21, 2012 1:19 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.