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Box 08, Slide 25 A close-up photo of the base of the large statue in Shenyang Red Flag Square (沈阳红旗广场). Right below Mao is a plaque that says "Bombard The Headquarters: My Big-Character Poster — Mao Zedong (炮打司令部《我的一张大字报》— 毛泽东)". Workers and soldiers are holding the Little Red Book and Selected Works of Zedong (毛泽东选集) in their hands. Summer, 1973. "I noticed the statue initially from ten blocks away as we drove toward the city center. First I glimpsed an enormous head, then an outstretched arm, and then to my astonishment, an entire statue. It was Mao, 100 feet high, wearing a trench coat, staring resolutely ahead and flanked at the base by carvings of adoring workers, peasants, and soldiers — the most extraordinary manifestation of the chairman's personality cult I saw anywhere in China."--Chinoy, M. (1999). In China live: People power and the television revolution (pp. 41–42). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
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Employees Women peasants Soldiers Little Red Book Propaganda, Communist Worker-Peasant-Soldier students Statues Peasants Zhongshan guang chang (Shenyang, Liaoning Sheng, China) China Shenyang (Liaoning Sheng, China) Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
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