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Watching Gap commercials, you would never think this was possible. George Michaels's "Freedom '90" plays in the background. A group of Chinese children are running down a flight of stairs. They are all wearing Mao hats, drab coats, monochrome school uniforms. Except one. He runs down, attired in Gap clothes--jeans, plaid shirt, smiling--bringing American democracy to the Communist state...
Such is the image. The American reality is the mirror image: Our Mao hat is the Gap pocket...
Every day, we come home from a long day of classes only to find a magazine with a picture of Mao or Europe on the cover. A fresh new publication like Jerk might add a little levity to Harvard's otherwise somber campus...
...people who pride themselves over three millenniums of civilization, the Chinese have perfected the art of forgetting. Mao Zedong once said he wanted the Chinese people to be a blank sheet of paper on which he could write anything he pleased. Throughout history, the Chinese have often obliged their rulers by volunteering to be such tabulae rasae. "Yes, that was a bad spell." "Yes, we suffered much." "No, let us not talk about it." The responses are the same, whether the period involved is the civil war between the Communists and the Nationalists that embroiled the country...
...REVOLUTION BOOKS never bought into Soviet communism, anyway. "It's been phony communism since Krushchev," Adler says. The store was founded by members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, which subscribes to Mao's version of the doctrine. These people welcomed the collapse of the recent Soviet coup--the hard-liners were "phony" Communists, anyway. The only "real" Communists around are the boldly ideological patriarchs in Beijing and Peru's violent Shining Path guerrillas...