Serve The People!

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This is a sexually charged satire of the Cultural Revolution & a huge underground hit in China where it is banned. Slanders Mao Zedong the army & is overflowing with sex & Do not distribute pass around comment on excerpt from it or report on it. Chinese Central Propaganda Bureau. This political satire by one of Chinas most distinguished authors has been banned in its native land for its depiction of the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) during the Cultural Revolution. Set in 1967 at the peak of the Mao cult when Serve the People was one of the great mans most famous slogans it tells the story of the bored wife of a military commander who artfully seduces a peasant soldier. When the lovers discover that the sacrilegious act of breaking a statue of Mao deliciously increases their desire they compete to see who can destroy the most sacred icons of their Great Leader
- smashing the commanders beloved Mao icons ripping up the Little Red Book" or defacing the Great Helmsmans epigrams. Defacing an image of Mao was punishable by death during the Cultural Revolution. Yan Lianke tramples on the most sacred taboos of the army the revolution sexuality & political etiquette. As a subversive critique of official corruption leadership hypocrisy & the insanity of the Cultural Revolution his book has a huge cult following in China."