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<\/a>Kevin Frayer\u2014Getty Images\nMao Zedong portraits for sale in a Beijing market.
\n\u201cComrade Mao, whether he was crossing \u2018a sea of surging waves\u2019 or scaling \u2018a mountain pass impregnable as iron\u2019 always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party.\u201d \u2014Xi Jinping<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018These mountains so decorated \/ Look even more beautiful today. We have blazed a shining path, and we must continue to press onward.\u2019 This Marxist viewpoint, combined with Chinese ideals and fighting spirit, will fire our hearts as we advance bravely and tirelessly down the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics, toward our dream of igniting a renaissance for the Chinese people.\u201d \u2014Xi Jinping quoting Mao Zedong\u2019s poem \u201cDabodi,\u201d about the landscape after a battle between Communists and Nationalists in 1929.<\/p>\n
\u201cStrengthening ideological education on university campuses plays a strategic role in consolidating and tempering Party leadership in higher education, thoroughly implementing the Party\u2019s educational principles, and ensuring the continued existence of socialism with Chinese characteristics. It is of profound importance for cementing Marxism\u2019s position as an ideological guiding force and as the common ground for the united struggle of the Party and the people of China.\u201d \u2014Yuan Guiren, Minister of Education<\/p>\n
It has long been standard operating procedure for China\u2019s leaders to pay tribute to Mao. Even as the People\u2019s Republic he wrought has embraced capitalist behavior with ever more heated ardor, the party he founded has remained firmly in power and his portrait has stared out over Tiananmen Square toward the squat building where his body reposes peacefully at the heart of a country he would scarcely recognize. But since Xi Jinping\u2019s arrival at the helm, Mao\u2019s words have seemed to reverberate more loudly. From the rejection of liberalism that colors the internal Party directive known as Document 9, to Education Minister Yuan Guiren\u2019s recent speech demanding an \u201cideological campaign,\u201d to Xi\u2019s own speeches which seem to reference Mao and Marx far more often than his predecessors\u2019, Chinese politics under Xi seem to have taken a hard ideological turn. How significant is this phenomenon and what does it mean? Is Mao still dead? \u2014The Editors A ChinaFile Conversation REBECCA E. KARL … Continue reading
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