

Married four times, his family life was at least eccentric. And it seems to be sufficiently documented that his head nurse, Wu Xujun, exercised this work of celestine for years. Li Zhisui, his personal physician for 22 years. Addicted to the Taoist sex variant, he was apparently insatiable, according to Dr. In these terms it is ridiculous to think if in the life of Mao, the beloved and hated leader, he slept with how many young peasants facilitated the court of nurses, flatterers and bodyguards who accompanied him in the last decades of his life.

How is it possible that today, with a history dating back to about four thousand five hundred years documented, the only character worthy of the honor of appearing on the tickets is Mao Zedong? This is the result of a process of deification, in an officially atheistic republic, initiated in his life and that continues beyond his death. A somewhat idealized Mao, although with its small wart next to the chin. My friend, a numismatic lover, couldn't believe it: all the bills have the effigy of Mao Zedong. From that same square, at the gate that leads to the Forbidden City, on October 1, 1949, Mao proclaimed the foundation of the People's Republic of China.īefore traveling to China, a friend asked me to bring her legal tender tickets for her collection. It is a hyperbolic cult that has its epitome in Tiananmen where, daily, thousands and thousands of Chinese queue hours and hours to briefly see the embalmed body of the leader. No pope, no king, no actress, no hero from the west receives a cult comparable to the one dispensed to Mao today in China. There is no figure comparable to Mao in the West.
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Andy Warhol knew how to intuit it by printing colored Mao's face as if it were a Hollywood star. We cannot easily understand, from our coordinates, what happens there. When we talk about China the scale changes. Except, of course, as we shall see, if it is Comrade President Mao. Li Zhisui, his personal physician for 22 years

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