Parades in Mao Zedong's Time: State Spectacles in China during the 1950s
Abstract
People's Republic of political parades is a rich and heterogeneous cultural theme, here, a deeper understanding of historians can be the nature of the Chinese Communist Party and its policies. Communist Party of China's national landscape, including Tiananmen Square, the 1950 devaluation at the May Day and National Day celebrations are well organized and has a multi-purpose political ritual: the old order is breaking down to meet the new era of anti-socialist tradition of festivals, but also to legitimize the authority of the Communist Party of China, but also numerous achievements under the leadership of the communist demonstration is also the history of modern Chinese revolution, Mao Zedong center certainly, but also declared that China In the presence of the international socialist camp. Despite the impact of the Soviet Union, these parades or show a strong national style. They also reflect a country is experiencing political and economic changes. Finally, Mao and other senior party leaders, while serving as the actor and director, carefully controlled and organized marchers action, so as the audience demonstrators in Tiananmen Square were the party and the party's chairman on the achievements of a large increase tribute