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

Title
Mao's golden mangoes and the Cultural Revolution / Alfreda Murck (ed.).
Publication
Zürich : Scheidegger & Spiess, c2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Murck, Alfreda
  • Museum Rietberg host institution.
Description
247 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm.
Summary
Mao's Golden Mangoes and the Cultural Revolution, published to coincide with an exhibition at the Museum Rietberg in Zürich, explores the golden magoes' reverbrations throughout Chinese culture for years to come. The text includes a historical narrative of the golden mangoes' rise to fame; first-person accounts of both students and factory workers; an examination of the National Day Parade in 1968, which used the symbol of the mangoes prominently; a critical essay on the 1976 film The Song of the Mango; and it compares the perception of the workers in China in the late 1960s and today.
Subject
  • 1949-1976
  • Signs and symbols > China
  • Mango
  • China > History > Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
  • China > Politics and government > 1949-1976
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Accompanies the exhibition of the same name: Museum Rietberg Zürich, 15 February to 16 June 2013.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-245).
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.
ISBN
  • 9783858817327
  • 3858817325
OCLC
  • 845063027
  • SCSB-13721978
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library