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Source: Sinosphere, NYT (2/13/15)
Chinese President Returns to Mao’s (and His) Roots in Yan’an
By CHRIS BUCKLEY
Portraits of the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and Mao Zedong adorned a book vendor’s display at a fair in Shandong Province, China.Credit Sheng Li/Reuters
President Xi Jinping of China has capped a year resonant with echoes from the Maoist era by going back on Friday to where it all began.
As China prepared to celebrate passing from the lunar Year of the Horse to the Year of the Goat next week, Mr. Xi visited Yan’an: the rural stronghold from where Mao Zedong pushed the Communist revolution to victory. And there Mr. Xi returned to the village of Liangjiahe, with its steep, yellow-earth hills and cave dwellings where Mr. Xi grew into adulthood during Mao’s Cultural Revolution, when he, like millions of urban youths, was “sent down” to the countryside.
On the cusp of each Lunar New Year, Chinese Communist Party leaders make heavily publicized trips to mix with common citizens, sharing New Year’s greetings and traditional dinners, usually dumplings.
The initial, brief reports on Friday saying that Mr. Xi had made his trip this year to Yan’an, in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, did not quote him. The microblogs and reports on the Internet merely showed him and his wife, Peng Liyuan, mingling with ruddy-faced farmers and children, and a snippet of video circulating online showed Mr. Xi telling a crowd that he felt very moved to return to the area. (more…)
by denton.2 at osu.edu on February 13, 2015
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