Staging History | Icons, Symbols and Official Imagery

Heroes and Models

The Great Leaders - Mao -Mao posters (Flash required)
Also Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Also Jiang Qing, Lin Biao, Sun Yatsen, Lu Xun, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping

The Worker (Steel worker, Coal miner, construction worker are favored) See also Daqing.

The Peasant - Chen Yonggui(see also Dazhai)

The Soldier - Lei Feng, Ouyang Hai, Wang Jie
(See Wang Jie [Chieh]'s diaries, as published in the Peking Review, 1966.)

The Ethnic minority

The Foreign Friend? Norman Bethune.

Characteristics: Heroes build and defend socialism and the motherland. Are larger than life. Often have action-figure physiques. Can express three emotions - determination, joy and class anger. Raised arms and clenched fists.