Word: lei
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...spirit of Lei Feng has come to Harvard," the article ends...
...article goes on to describe American students and professors joining the Chinese in their voluntary labor. It also describes the Americans' awed admiration of Lei. According to the article, one professor named "Hemo"--who also does not exist--tearfully asks the Chinese students for a photograph of Lei...
Andrea Worden, a Stanford doctoral candidate inChinese history, has been following the latest LeiFung campaign. She said the Chinese leadershipoften trots out Lei when it wants to impress uponits people the importance of public service andloyalty...
Previous People's Daily reports have describednonexistent cults of Lei Feng at the United StatesMilitary Academy. Worden said one articledescribed Lei as one of the "five heroes" of WestPoint and quoted students as saying theirprofessors exhorted them to follow Lei's examplesof service...
Worden said she may have inadvertently sparkedthe latest, international Lei Feng campaign. On arecent trip to China she visited an exhibit inLei's hometown commemorating his life. Surprisedat how seriously the villagers took Lei, shehalf-jokingly wrote in the exhibit's comment book,"Lei Feng belongs to the world...