Mao: A Biography Dressed in the drab military uniform that symbolized the revolutionary government of Communist China, Mao Zedong's body still looked powerful, like an giant rock in a gushing river. An enormous red flag draped his coffin, like a red sail unfurled on a Chinese junk, illustrating the dualism of traditional China and the present Communist China that typified Mao. 1 A river of people flowed past while he lay in state during the second …showed first 75 words of 4193 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4193 total…the city into a commune, Mao demanded the Shanghai Commune be disbanded and order restored. Mao called in the military. By 1975, 12 million Red Guards were sent to rural labor camps. Ibid. p.18. 60 It mirrored the same type of adoration and Godlike status that was accorded to the past emperors of China. Despite criticism of numerous Communist Party officials, Mao's authority was never questioned. 61 Mao convened the 9th Party Congress in the fall of 1969. Ibid. p.18.