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108. See Simon Sebag Montefiore, "History in a Pickle," p. 5. For details of the preservation of Mao's remains, see also Li,
The Private Life of Chairman Mao,
pp. 16-25; and Lincoln Kaye, "Mummy Dearest," p. 17. From the 1980s, reports on the state of Mao's preserved remains became something of an annual event. Over the years

 

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it has variously been claimed that Mao's corpse was shinking, bloating, or changing color. In 1995 the authorities denied reports that the Mao mummy was turning green. See Hamish McIlwraith, "Raise the Red Emperor."
109. For details, see "Modern Mao Artifacts and Multi-media Mao" below.
110. See "Suzao weiren," p. 4. This was not the first waxwork of Mao made for display in Tiananmen. See Li,
The Private Life of Chairman Mao,
pp. 23-24.
111. Quoted in Wakeman, "Mao's Remains," p. 284.
112. In his
Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution: From Utopianism to Hedonism,
Ci Jiwei offers an analysis of this journey from revolution to consumption and notes the bizarre corollary between the two.
113. See
Renmin ribao,
30 September 1979, quoted in "Mao's Thoughts, Not Mao's," p. 2.
114. "Mao Zedong sixiang yongfang guangmang."
115. Wakeman, "Mao's Remains," p. 287.
116. Luo Bing, "Mao Zedong zhuzuo duo daibi," pp. 11-12. In this context, see also Michael Schoenhals, "Ghost-Writers: Expressing `The Will of the Authorities'," in
Doing Things with Words in Chinese Politics,
pp. 55-77 and 114-15.
117. Luo Bing, "Mao Zedong zhuzuo duo daibi."
118. Also called the "Three Most Read Articles," or the "Three Old Favorites." For an example of the canonization of these three essays, see "Long Live the `Three Most Read Articles'!"
119. Luo Bing, "Mao Zedong zhuzuo duo daibi." In 1992 it was widely rumored in Beijing that Hu was attempting to verify his authorship of many of Mao's works. Officially published materials, however, make no mention of this, and Hu's memoirs relating to Mao are limited to his pre-1949 work. See Hu Qiaomu,
Hu Qiaomu huiyi Mao Zedong.
The most detailed official account of the evolution of
Selected Works
is Liu Jintian and Wu Xiaomei,
Mao Zedong xuanji chubande qianqian houhou.

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