Comments on: Come back Hua Guofeng, all is forgiven.

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:24:02 +0000

Now there’s a theory worth exploring…there IS an uncanny physical resemblance, though Stefan Landsberger, the expert on Chinese propaganda posters, once suggested to me that the artists may have touched up Hua’s portraits to give him more of a “Maoist” visage.

It wasn’t unusual in the medieval Vatican for the unacknowledged sons of popes to rise high in the ecclesiastical establishment. Given Mao’s, erm, proclivities one wonders if there were cadres whose ties to the Helmsman were closer than could be officially admitted.

Doesn’t change my basic feelings on the subject, though. Only three more months until the next Hua Guofeng Day, get your shopping done early.

By: Summer

Summer — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:04:51 +0000

He was a great man indeed but blindly following mao’s instruction was not so clever after all. i have more sympathy for him, not because his loss of power, but rather, his secret identity as the son of Chairman Mao…

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:01:00 +0000

He is still hanging in there:

http://www.joecool.dk/blog/?p=467

By: nanheyangrouchuan

nanheyangrouchuan — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:25:00 +0000

I always love the chubby, ruby red cheeks of everyone in those propaganda posters. Was it because they were happy or because the wind was chaffing them?

Well Granite Jotter, you could elevate your man to a new level of fame by recording how long each day and how many continuous days the old man sleeps through the big meeting.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:42:00 +0000

I remember well the first time we had to read Lu Xinhua's "The Wounded" in Contemporary Chinese Lit.

As with pretty much all the stories in the "literature of the wounded" genre it spawned, the story ends with the guy and the girl facing out to the wide world, moving on from their traumatic CultRev past and shouting affirming things about their willingness to move on under the guiding hand of Chairman Hua.

"Chairman Who?" we all said.

Unfortunately, Hu wasn't in charge yet at that time, so none of the now-obvious jokes could be done.