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Monster Essays - The Life of Mao Zedong
The Life of Mao Zedong
Dressed in the drab military uniform that symbolized the
revolutionary government of Communist China, Mao Zedong's body still looked
powerful, like an giant rock in a gushing river. An enormous red flag
draped his coffin, like a red sail unfurled on a Chinese junk, illustrating
the dualism of traditional China and the present Communist China that
typified Mao. 1 A river of people flowed past while he lay in state during
the second week of September 1976. Workers, peasants, soldiers and students,
united in grief; brought together by Mao, the helmsman of modern China. 2
He had assembled a revolutionary government using tra....
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