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1vy0123
I'm curious to know the catalog of books in Mao's study/library/hospital at the end stage of his life.
2Nicole_VanK
Yes, interesting, certainly.
But: a.) is the info available?, and b.) how may of us can produce records in Chinese?
In other words: Is this doable?
P.s.: help out if you feel you can.
But: a.) is the info available?, and b.) how may of us can produce records in Chinese?
In other words: Is this doable?
P.s.: help out if you feel you can.
3MMcM
Maybe the Shaoshan museum has a catalog of their recreated study.
Americans of a certain age will recall this image: RN, White House Years and Kissinger all remarked on the books. (As had Snow in his earlier Life piece.) And it became an important set in Nixon in China.
I think somebody also noted all the old-style bindings, around the time the Cultural Revolution would take the old anarchist Wu Zhihui's slogan 把线装书扔到茅厕里去！to heart.
Americans of a certain age will recall this image: RN, White House Years and Kissinger all remarked on the books. (As had Snow in his earlier Life piece.) And it became an important set in Nixon in China.
I think somebody also noted all the old-style bindings, around the time the Cultural Revolution would take the old anarchist Wu Zhihui's slogan 把线装书扔到茅厕里去！to heart.
4vy0123
a.) is the info available?
Asking someone in the news business is a place to start.
There is this email address that popped up on Twitter.
Asking someone in the news business is a place to start.
There is this email address that popped up on Twitter.
5MMcM
Here is a news report on the move in 2008 to which I was referring, from Zhongnanhai to Shaoshan. It too mentions the variety of reading material, foreign and domestic, classic and modern, but the only one given by name is Hunan Pictorial from 1973 (Google image search -- anyone who was learning Chinese at that time will remember magazines of that sort).
Similar searches for a catalog don't turn up anything, but I don't know anything about Chinese LIS.
Similar searches for a catalog don't turn up anything, but I don't know anything about Chinese LIS.
