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just published: de essentie van china - second print

Just published: 'De essentie van China' - updated and extended.

For those who read Dutch: enjoy it!

confucius is back

Not only Communist hero Lei Feng is model for the modern Chinese, also Confucius is fully back in the picture.

Confucius, inspiring man for the Chinese nation for millenia was banished by Mao Zedong, but once more he is role model for the Chinese nation and maybe even for the whole world with China establishing Confucius institutes all over the globe. 

lei feng in shanghai

In a shop at Nanjing Lu - the most popular shopping street of Shanghai - a poster of Lei Feng must inspire the employees when checking in and out.

This picture could have been taken 20 years ago. It was taken in 2012.

An absolute fantastic website about Cultural Revolution propaganda with movies, posters, slogans, Mao badges and lots of other material is Morning Sun.

the come back of lei feng

"Carry forward the Beijing spirit      

Study Lei Feng

Be civilized and polite Beijing People"

communist hero lei feng is back

In the 'Our Beijing, our spirit' campaign in 2012 Lei Feng, soldier in the People's Liberation Army and grand hero of communism in a 1963 campaign, is promoted again as an inspiring model for contemporary times. 

"our beijing, our spirit"