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infatuation with Mao, the state owned Xinhua bookstore sold more than
10 million copies of a new four-volume edition of Mao's collected works
last year, and state-owned film studios have been cranking out docudra-
mas. The 1991 film Mao Zedong and His Son was calculated to make Mao
appear more human by highlighting an emotional scene in which he was
told that his son Mao Anying had just been killed in the Korean War by
the Americans. Such efforts to humanize Mao continued this year with
the release of the propagandist Story of Mao Zedong. 87

Pro-Mao propaganda still goes on today. Quiz shows are aired on

M aoism's influ-
ence on the
Chinese admin-
istration can be
seen in the pro-
paganda
posters that
Head of State,
Jiang Zemin,
had prepared.
The poster on
the left shows
Mao, Deng
Xiaoping, and
Jiang Zemin.

Communist China’s Policy
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