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<h3 style="margin-top:0;"><a style="font-weight: 500; font-size: 21px;line-height: 30px; margin-top:25px; margin-bottom: 10px;" href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2015/02/13/xi-visits-yanan-2/" target="_blank">Xi visits Yan’an</a></h3>
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<p>Source: Sinosphere, NYT (2/13/15)<br />
<a href="http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/chinese-president-returns-to-maos-and-his-roots-in-yanan/">Chinese President Returns to Mao’s (and His) Roots in Yan’an</a><br />
By CHRIS BUCKLEY</p>
<div style="width: 467px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img id="100000003508373" class="" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2015/02/13/world/13sino-xi/13sino-xi-tmagArticle.jpg" alt="Portraits of the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and Mao Zedong adorned a book vendor's display at a fair in Shandong Province, China." width="457" height="313" /><p class="wp-caption-text">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</p></div>
<p>President Xi Jinping of China has capped a year resonant with <a title="Times report. " href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/05/world/chinas-maoists-are-revived-as-thought-police.html">echoes from the Maoist era</a> by going back on Friday to where it all began.</p>
<p class="story-body-text">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 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/world/asia/17village.html">“sent down” to the countryside</a>.</p>
<p class="story-body-text">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.<br />
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<p class="story-body-text">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 <a title="In Chinese." href="http://www.weibo.com/YAJD0911#_rnd1423805887825">microblogs and reports on the Internet</a> merely showed him and his wife, Peng Liyuan, mingling with ruddy-faced farmers and children, and <a title="The video." href="http://video.sina.com.cn/p/news/c/v/2015-02-13/160364620639.html">a snippet of video</a> circulating online showed Mr. Xi telling a crowd that he felt very moved to return to the area. <a href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2015/02/13/xi-visits-yanan-2/#more-7977" class="more-link">(more…)</a></p>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on February 13, 2015 </div>
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