Visions of China
The Red Guard appeared during the Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China and they were proposed to guard Chairman Mao Zedong and his red regime in China Mao was determined to lead this revolution which meant to cleanse China of its past and put it on the road to a socialist utopia Here the Red Guard has returned to evaluate the state of affairs of the present Familiar to him will be the communist party which is still the only leading party and socialism which still dominates the country s political system He will recognise the continued interest and retention of the Forbidden City Economically however development has taken benefit from capitalism s free market theory a far cry from Mao s utopian ideal The current manifestations of the new China that of shopping malls and fast food restaurants offer a strange testimony to this time travelling guardsman an uncanny view at what has in fact become of his country Diligent and loyal he surveys the new intrusions keeping within the protocol of his red army Bearing the proper uniform Mao s medal Red Guard label and the little red book with the quotations of Mao our historical representative travels not only between Beijing s politics and Shanghai s finances but also between an idealist past and the more sobering if questionable present
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Location: Beijing, China
Photo credit: © Wenhao Yu / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: anmen, book, china, communist, cultural, guard, label, mao, medal, party, proletarian, red, regime, revolution, socialism, square, tian, uniform, visions, zedong
