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Mao's golden mangoes and the Cultural Revolution / Alfreda Murck (ed.).

Van Pelt Library DS778.7 .M36 2013
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Murck, Alfreda, editor.
Museum Rietberg, host institution.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Signs and symbols--China.
Signs and symbols.
Mango.
China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
China.
History.
China--Politics and government--1949-1976.
Politics and government.
Physical Description:
247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Zürich : Scheidegger & Spiess, [2013]
Contents:
Preface / Albert Lutz
Introduction / Alexandra von Przychowski
Qinghua University and Chinese politics during the Cultural Revolution / Xiaowei Zheng
1968: my story of the mango / Wang Xiaoping
Designing spectacles: the 1968 Beijing National Day Parade / Daniel Leese
Food as metaphor / Alfreda Murck
Political awakening through magical fruit: the film Song of the mango / Adam Yuet Chau
The reverse apotheosis of the peasant-worker / Alonzo Emery
Catalog of the Alfreda Murck Collection at the Museum Rietberg Zürich / Alfreda Murck
Mangoes as a gift to the workers
October 1968: parades, national and regional
The People's Liberation Army
Objects issued by work units
Marketing mangoes: consumer goods to foster loyalty
Endnotes catalog
Inscriptions
Character list
Selected bibliography
Authors
Credits and imprint.
Notes:
Accompanies the exhibition of the same name: Museum Rietberg Zürich, 15 February to 16 June 2013.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-245).
ISBN:
3858817325
9783858817327
OCLC:
845063027
Publisher Number:
99954702228

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