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Donnerstag | 13.00 Uhr | The Chairman's Voice – Manuscript, Orality, and Lyric Authority in the Cultural Revolution The Chairman's Voice - Manuscript, Orality, and Lyric Authority in the Cultural Revolution Lunch Talk Prof. Dr. Zhiyi Yang, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Sinologie In 1966, around the time when the storm of the Cultural Revolution was gathering, a collection of “Unpublished Poems of Chairman Mao” was circulating broadly in various forms as manuscripts and later unofficial publications among the Chinese population. A young scientist soon claimed himself to be the real author of most of the poems (19 out of 20-some) and was consequently prosecuted for “counterfeiting Chairman Mao’s poetry.” Nonetheless, these “fake Mao” poems were put on official posters, cited in People’s Daily editorials and CCTV news, inspired the naming of Red Guard factions, and memorized by millions just as the “authentic” ones. And this case is not unique: throughout the Cultural Revolution, multiple Maoesque poems, sometimes written by prosecuted intellectuals, were circulating as Mao’s poetry, though they gained much less traction. Adresse Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) CATS 010.01.05 (Auditorium) Voßstraße 2 69115 Heidelberg Veranstalter Institut für Sinologie Homepage Veranstalter https://www.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/sinologie Kontakt |