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The Bo Xilai Scandal ePub eBook
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The Bo Xilai Scandal ePub eBook

by FT reporters reporters
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
95 pages
1h 34m
English
FT Publishing International
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Singing red

As part of Bo's “sing red” campaign, government departments, companies and community groups were encouraged to spend large sums of money organizing singalongs of revolutionary and Cultural Revolution-era “red” songs.

Bo exhorted officials and the masses to glorify the country's “red” Communist heritage and revive Mao-era concepts of egalitarian morality. Officials were ordered to go down to the countryside to spend time with the masses, the government sent Mao Zedong quotations out to all citizens via text message, patriotic historical dramas replaced game shows on television and advertising was banned from primetime airwaves.

The local government even commissioned a new 37-meter statue of Mao and erected it on the grounds of Chongqing ...

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