We keep hearing that Xi Jinping is like Mao Zedong. I discuss two ways in which they are, in fact, more like polar opposites, and suggest why it is we keep hearing this.
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Rebecca Karl, Xi is not Mao
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Portrait of Mao, 1959
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Mao in a rice field
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Mao proclaiming the establishment of PRC in 1949 [ Ссылка ]
Poster, 1976: Bombard the capitalist headquarters [ Ссылка ]
Poster, 1968: The renegade traitor and scab Liu Shaoqi must forever be expelled from the Party! [ Ссылка ]
The Qianlong Emperor in Ceremonial Armour on Horseback
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