Wuhan
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Subí a un taxi en Wuhan, sin destino fijo, por pasear la ciudad, por el paseo del río principalmente. Le comenté al conductor que había llegado a la ciudad con la esperanza de ver el estupendo museo provincial, pero me lo había encontrado cerrado y no solo eso, todo el transporte público en una enorme área se había suspendido también, pues Xi Jinping visitaba la ciudad. Y añadí tímidamente, tanteando el terreno primero: ‘pero no era así antes… ¿no?, no te cerraban media ciudad porque visitaba el presidente...’

Se paró un momento, me chequeó por el retrovisor un segundo y soltó: ¡emperadores!, ¡emperadores!, ¡emperadores!, ¡todo es suyo!, ¡todo es suyo!, ¡son como emperadores! Fue como prender la mecha de una traca de petardos y tuve la carrera más descacharrantemente subversiva que he tenido en muchos años. Nos despedimos con efusiva complicidad, como si fuéramos viejos camaradas del gulag y riéndonos de nosotros mismos por ello. ...

Just one regular day in Shaxi, Yunnan, 2008.
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Just one regular day in Peking 2, 2015.
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Just one regular day in Peking, 2015.
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Bought this framed picture at the Changsha Flea Market. Filial Piety, from the parents that arranged it or otherwise asked for this photo to be taken, and from the son that dutifully obliged. Love and best wishes for the future, expressed as tradition and convention demanded it. A proposition that now lives on in my bookshelf; it still radiates with Confucian spirit.
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Changsha, possibly late 50's since the badges they are wearing are not Mao badges.
This photo would have been presented on an envelope like is shown in photo-2. At the top Mao's quotation about the arts serving the masses and particularly peasants, workers and soldiers.

Graphic Design to serve the Revolution
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'In Agriculture, learn from Dazhai'
One of the 'Learn From' campaigns launched by Mao, this one focused on the Dazhai Commune during the Great Leap Forward.

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'In Industry, learn from Daqing'
One of the 'Learn From' campaigns launched by Mao, this one, about a lucrative oil field in Heilongjiang Province, Manchuria, was launched in 1964. The 'Learn From' campaign promoted Mao's socialist agenda through 'success stories'.
It was part of the Socialist Education Movement, an attempt to restore the People's Communes, a move that was resisted by Liu Shaoqi. That later cost Liu his life, even as president, and marked one of the peaks of the chaos that the Cultural Revolution brought about. So the 'Learn From' campaigns can be seen as the precursors to the CR.

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Xian 2008
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