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  • Translator's Note: Chairman Mao was often compared to the "red sun," especially during the years of the Cultural Revolution.†   (source)
  • Long live Chairman Mao!†   (source)
  • Hiroshima, Mao.†   (source)
  • All the hypnotist had to do was shout 'Mao!' and the merchant would play the violin, even though he had never seen one before."†   (source)
  • The Mara Salvatrucha, 18th Street, and Mao Mao gangs control whole neighborhoods, where they impose a "war tax" on taxis, bicycles, or buses passing through.†   (source)
  • Then Comrade Pillai, in a hectoring voice, quoted Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • In our own century, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and many others also made their contribution to Marxism, or Marxism-Leninism.†   (source)
  • I read works by and about Che Guevara, Mao Tse-tung, Fidel Castro.†   (source)
  • Ay, Dios mao is right, Papi said.†   (source)
  • During the Vietnam War, he was a conscientious objector, and there is still something of the '60s hippie about him, like the Mao cap he sometimes wears over his braided yarmulke.†   (source)
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  • It was Mao who proclaimed: "Women hold up half the sky.†   (source)
  • The theaterful of teachers and students chanting Mao's political slogans ….†   (source)
  • Mao became very old, and his cult became very strong.†   (source)
  • The topics range in subject matter from a Chairman Mao biography to James Bond novels.†   (source)
  • The Mao lover's Mao," Lelia answers.†   (source)
  • A white Occidental had horribly defiled the coffin and the hallowed body of Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • The filial son, talking things out with Mao.†   (source)
  • But the Communists wear a blue plainness dotted with one red Mao button.†   (source)
  • A picture of Chairman Mao on this newspaper ripped in half.†   (source)
  • One day we heard that Chairman Mao was going to receive all the Red Guards at Tienanmen Square.†   (source)
  • Long live Mao Ze-dong Thought!" he shouted.†   (source)
  • Chairman Mao, our beloved leader, smiled down at us from his place above the blackboard.†   (source)
  • You can study Chairman Mao's works by yourselves."†   (source)
  • "Long live Chairman Mao!" someone shouted.†   (source)
  • You can tell your parents you'll follow Chairman Mao, not them.†   (source)
  • We had really done what Chairman Mao asked, breaking with the old and establishing the new.†   (source)
  • Our beloved Chairman Mao had started the Cultural Revolution in May.†   (source)
  • He must have made comments critical of Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution.†   (source)
  • "There is something you can do to prove you are truly Chairman Mao's child."†   (source)
  • "Chairman Mao didn't say that I can't wear an army cap."†   (source)
  • It was "alienating oneself from the people," according to what Chairman Mao said.†   (source)
  • They all believed they were doing it for Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • I hated my grandfather, just as I hated all of Chairman Mao's enemies.†   (source)
  • I am sure you are loyal to Chairman Mao and the Communist Party-.†   (source)
  • Naturally, we knew only good things about Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution.†   (source)
  • It was only after Mao's death that I knew I was deceived."†   (source)
  • I once fervently believed in Mao and the Chinese Communist Party.†   (source)
  • How could she ignore what Chairman Mao said?†   (source)
  • "Anyone who sees Chairman Mao is the happiest person in the world," the saying went.†   (source)
  • Chang Hong and I washed our faces in cold water and soldiered on toward Chairman Mao's collar.†   (source)
  • Chairman Mao taught us that "inner beauty is much more valuable than outward appearance."†   (source)
  • Chairman Mao's campaign to "Destroy the Four Olds" was even more important than the others.†   (source)
  • It was only after Mao's death in 1976 that people woke up.†   (source)
  • I would not allow myself to stop trying to follow Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • "Chairman Mao says you can't choose your class status but you can choose your future.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, none of them seemed to hate the Party or oppose Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • Chairman Mao said they're holding us back," I informed her.†   (source)
  • According to Mao, this was supposed to benefit both the young students and the farmers.†   (source)
  • Chairman Mao told us that was exploitation.†   (source)
  • Now, after six periods, we had learned "Long live Chairman Mao,"†   (source)
  • Right next to me there was a comrade whose cousin had seen Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • "Here is the opportunity for you to help Chairman Mao's revolution.†   (source)
  • When natural disasters had caused food shortages, Chairman Mao had urged us all to produce food.†   (source)
  • Song, wearing a Mao suit, is dragged in from the wings as part of the U.S. dance.†   (source)
  • The same calibre as the one he had taken from another conspirator in Mao's tomb.†   (source)
  • Ay, Dios mao, she said, letting her arms fall to her side.†   (source)
  • Sure, Mao said, he understood, after all he had parents too.†   (source)
  • Compared to Chairman Mao's monument in Tiananmen Square, the White House seemed very simple indeed.†   (source)
  • Then you go to France and be a pervert for Chairman Mao!†   (source)
  • Of course, one of the most important requirements was Mao's Little Red Book.†   (source)
  • She took out a notebook from the pocket of her Mao jacket and then a reed-like ballpoint pen.†   (source)
  • Gan mao — to catch cold — was one Chinese phrase they understood completely.†   (source)
  • I thought he must have been a great communist, just like Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • It is the Monument to the People's Heroes, Mao first in the pantheon.†   (source)
  • And the indignity of students shouting the slogans of Chairman Mao at me—in French.†   (source)
  • He caused the trouble at the hated Mao's tomb…!†   (source)
  • "Do you like your Chairman Mao?" he asked.†   (source)
  • He stood in front of Mao's crystal coffin, awash in the eerie beams, and looked around.†   (source)
  • Do you think Chairman Mao's words will fill ourstomachs?†   (source)
  • I had been so excited at the thought of performing for Madame Mao, and now it wouldn't be.†   (source)
  • The Vice-Premier, an old revolutionary and veteran of Mao's Long March, was especially vocal.†   (source)
  • Madame Mao was arrested along with the other members of the Gang of Four.†   (source)
  • They only had to mention Chairman Mao's name and the Red Guards would not have to pay fora thing.†   (source)
  • I too would have done anything for Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • My devotion to Mao and his ideology was greatly intensified.†   (source)
  • Both Chairman Mao and he are master politicians, brilliant at understanding the people's psyche.†   (source)
  • In fact, we spent more time on Mao than we did on ballet and all other subjects combined.†   (source)
  • You will carry Chairman Mao's artistic flag into the bright future.†   (source)
  • The barefoot doctor was oneof Mao's inventions, a product of the Cultural Revolution.†   (source)
  • Hai Imo Sim, one of our political ballets, with me and "Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • Do you know anyone who may dislike Chairman Mao or Premier Zhou?†   (source)
  • They kept insisting on testing my niang on her understanding of Mao's Red Book.†   (source)
  • "Long, long live Chairman Mao!" replied the girl in a proud voice.†   (source)
  • Even the treatment of the dead changed under Mao's rule.†   (source)
  • Our Chairman Mao is the one who has brought Marx's communist philosophy to life!†   (source)
  • "Long, long live Chairman Mao," she read.†   (source)
  • We became nothing more than Chairman Mao's political puppets.†   (source)
  • I was thankful to Chairman Mao, eternally thankful, that he had saved us.†   (source)
  • I had let Chairman Mao and Madame Mao down.†   (source)
  • It looks like vou have enough food here to feed all of Mao's army.†   (source)
  • Like Chairman Mao, he seized on the psychological needs of an entire nation.†   (source)
  • The girl with the big eyes and I followed Madame Mao's people into the headmaster's office.†   (source)
  • "Did you really see Madame Mao?" one peasant man asked me.†   (source)
  • Both parents were arrested, and their son was upheld as a national hero, Mao's model guard.†   (source)
  • They knew Madame Mao's approach could never work.†   (source)
  • However; it is Madame Mao's wish that we should give the steps Chinese names as well.†   (source)
  • You are privileged to be chosen to be part of Madame Mao's new school.†   (source)
  • And, reinforcing our sense of Mao's godliness, it was a brilliant, sunny day.†   (source)
  • Your parents helped Chairman Mao win his first war.†   (source)
  • Didn't Chairman Mao fight many years of guerilla warfare?†   (source)
  • And of course there were the endless "Long live Chairman Mao!†   (source)
  • Hua Guofeng made no attempts to change the direction that Chairman Mao had set for the country.†   (source)
  • This only made me more determined to be a good young guard of Chairman Mao's.†   (source)
  • Homosexuality in Mao's China was a serious criminal offense.†   (source)
  • Often we were divided into small groups to discuss Chairman Mao's most recent ideas.†   (source)
  • My performances of Madame Mao's model ballets.†   (source)
  • I emphasized our superior communist system and Chairman Mao's valued principles.†   (source)
  • Then one of our political heads told a security guard that we were from Madame Mao's school.†   (source)
  • Lei Feng's diary showed how devoted he was to Mao's ideals.†   (source)
  • And now here I was, one among the last generation of Mao's dancers about to graduate.†   (source)
  • She disliked the chaos and change caused by Mao's Cultural Revolution.†   (source)
  • Don't you think Chairman Mao would have secured military backing for him before he died?†   (source)
  • Madame Mao supported this idea, and the project quickly received the central government's backing.†   (source)
  • This never would have been possible under Madame Mao's directorship, I thought.†   (source)
  • What a shame Chairman Mao didn't like cricket fights.†   (source)
  • There was nothing in it that could shake my faith in Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • In May that year, Madame Mao visited our university for the second time.†   (source)
  • The test of your seven years' training under Madame Mao.†   (source)
  • Not Chairman Mao, but Madame Mao came to our school and spoke to us!†   (source)
  • He had done nothing wrong except be appointed by one of Madame Mao's follow-ers.†   (source)
  • But Chairman Mao says, 'Women are half of the sky!'†   (source)
  • Now, let's all get up and bow to Chairman Mao with your heart full of love and appreciation!†   (source)
  • Our great leader Chairman Mao, Lead and guide us forward.†   (source)
  • "Do you think Madame Mao will become our next leader?" the Bandit asked.†   (source)
  • But to my surprise, the headmaster introduced them as Madame Mao's representatives from Beijing.†   (source)
  • I was told that Madame Mao laughed too when I scratched my head.†   (source)
  • It was mysteriously dropped after that, and I never saw Madame Mao's Art Philosophy teacher again.†   (source)
  • Yes, we want to wish Chairman Mao a long long life, because our great leader saved us.†   (source)
  • There were thousands of red banners and flags with "Long, long live Chairman Mao" written on them.†   (source)
  • Besides, if Chairman Mao didn't like him, we shouldn't either.†   (source)
  • Mao's death could only mean immense insecurity.†   (source)
  • "Long, long live Chairman Mao!" we repeated.†   (source)
  • We were all given copies of Mao's Red Book.†   (source)
  • Rumors began circulating about Madame Mao's male concubines.†   (source)
  • In China, Chairman Mao and his government's absolute authority could never have been challenged.†   (source)
  • A month after Mao's death, on 6 October 1976, our academy received another enormous shock.†   (source)
  • The influence of Mao and the grim shadow of the Cultural Revolution had begun to lift.†   (source)
  • He was a follower, a puppet of Mao and the Gang of Four.†   (source)
  • I hadn't learned anything about serving Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • They also give me a beautiful diary with many pictures of Chairman Mao in it.†   (source)
  • I looked at him and remembered Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • After all, he had written the foreword in Mao's Red Book.†   (source)
  • You're Chairman and Madame Mao's last generation of dancers.†   (source)
  • She pointed to Mao's picture on the wall.†   (source)
  • Chairman Mao's idea was that the arts should be important political tools.†   (source)
  • She placed her hand over mine and we finished "Long, long live Chairman Mao" together.†   (source)
  • He asked us all to stand up and sing "We Love Chairman Mao": The east is red, the sun is rising.†   (source)
  • I loved my Mang and my dia too much to betray them for my belief in Chairman Mao's revolution.†   (source)
  • Do you want to kill yourself, to embarrass Madame Mao?†   (source)
  • Even his sacred family values had been called into question by Mao and the Cultural Revolution.†   (source)
  • So Madame Mao ordered each academy to go back to its old location in the city.†   (source)
  • This is not allowed in Madame Mao's school!†   (source)
  • I was dressed in my best Mao jacket and ready to leave by six o'clock.†   (source)
  • Madame Mao's military officers would head key departments of the university.†   (source)
  • He would teach us some of Mao's simple poetry, but his real passion was for classical poetry.†   (source)
  • Madame Mao and over a billion pairs of eyes will be watching your progress.†   (source)
  • We spent a lot of time at the academy studying Mao's theories.†   (source)
  • Our great leader Chairman Mao said in his Red Book: "Study hard and improve upward every day."†   (source)
  • We should follow Vice Chairman Lin's example and never go anywhere without Chairman Mao's Red Book.†   (source)
  • Sixteen years ago, thanks to Madame Mao, I was selected to join the Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • "Did you meet Chairman and Madame Mao?" he asked eventually.†   (source)
  • Chairman Mao's regime not only changed the way we lived; it also changed the way we died.†   (source)
  • "Chairman Mao, Chairman Mao!" we all shouted excitedly.†   (source)
  • And the men and women—their Mao-style jackets looked so smart!†   (source)
  • I felt so happy to be one of Mao's Little Red Scarf Guards.†   (source)
  • Hua Guofeng, Chairman Mao's chosen successor, who else?" he replied.†   (source)
  • Here I was, part of the Beijing Dance Academy, with Madame Mao our honorary artistic director.†   (source)
  • I may slip and die and this would cause embarrassment for Madame Mao, because I'm her student.†   (source)
  • But of course I didn't blame Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • I was so proud to be a young Guard of Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • Surely even Madame Mao would fall asleep if we performed like waddling ducks!†   (source)
  • Now I wouldn't have to dance for Mao's communist ideals.†   (source)
  • These were especially aimed at teaching the uneducated peasants Mao's communist ideas.†   (source)
  • Madame Mao wouldn't let her students starve, would she?†   (source)
  • Before we start our first class each day, we will bow to Chairman Mao in all sincerity.†   (source)
  • My classmates and myself, renter front, wearing Mao's Red Guard scarves.†   (source)
  • Your lucky son has been chosen for Madame Mao's Beijing Dance Academy.†   (source)
  • Millions of people shouted, "Long, long live Chairman Mao!"†   (source)
  • Raise your hand if you have Chairman Mao's Red Book.†   (source)
  • I hope you will treasure this opportunity Chairman Mao gives you.†   (source)
  • Do the babies wear a Mao button like a drop of blood on their jumpsuits?†   (source)
  • The Hotel People liked to tell their guests that the oldest of the wooden houses, with its airtight, paneled storeroom which could hold enough rice to feed an army for a year had been the ancestral home of Comrade E. M. S. Namboodiripad, "Kerala's Mao Tse-tung," they explained to the uninitiated.†   (source)
  • The Red Union had been tempered by the tumultuous experience of revolutionary tours around the country and seeing Chairman Mao in the great rallies in Tiananmen Square.†   (source)
  • On the way back, one of Ye's colleagues recited from Chairman Mao's essay "Remembering Bethune": "Noble-minded and pure, a man of moral integrity and above vulgar interests."†   (source)
  • Many of these so-called "Rusticated Youths" were former Red Guards, and some commentators believe that the policy was instituted by Chairman Mao to restore order by removing the rebels, who had gotten out of control, from the cities.†   (source)
  • "When Chairman Mao invited the Red Guards to travel to establish revolutionary ties, my father forbade me to go," she began.†   (source)
  • She was, after all, a Red Guard Committee member, and she suspected him of disrespect toward Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • One of the heroes admired by all, who helped Chairman Mao liberate China from oppression and defeated the Americans in Korea.†   (source)
  • I have resolved to dedicate my whole life to Chairman Mao and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.†   (source)
  • Upon deciding that sparrows were harmful to the rice crop, for instance, Mao ordered the Chinese to hunt and kill them.†   (source)
  • After a few weeks a beautiful copy of the popular painting Mao Ze-dong on His Way to Anyuan appeared in our alley.†   (source)
  • With every step I hoped that Chairman Mao would forgive my black class status and let me be a Red Guard too.†   (source)
  • "By the way, I suggest you add a quotation from Chairman Mao's works to the end of the presentation, so you can finish on an inspiring note."†   (source)
  • You can break with your family and follow Chairman Mao, or you can follow your father and become an enemy of the people.†   (source)
  • "We even know where it was hidden, but before I go get it, I'll give you one last chance to prove your loyalty to Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • We girls were sitting around a big table, gluing dyed millet grains onto a huge sheet of paper to make a portrait of Chairman Mao.†   (source)
  • Ironically, had Mao died before launching the Cultural Revolution, he would surely be remembered today as a much more positive historical figure.†   (source)
  • A huge poster of Chairman Mao in a green army uniform, waving to the Red Guards from the Tienanmen rostrum, covered almost an entire wall.†   (source)
  • I knew that Dad's political study class, like mine, studied Chairman Mao's works and Party Central Committee documents.†   (source)
  • Seventeen years earlier, in 1949, the charismatic revolutionary Mao Ze-dong led the Communist Party to power as the new leaders of China.†   (source)
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