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Among the top sales: a block of four 1968 stamps known as "Mao's Inscription to Japanese Worker Friends" for $1.14 million in March.
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The stamps, which were never issued for use, feature a design called Mao's 1968 Inscription to Japanese Worker Friends.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Deng clearly enjoyed Mao's confidence and even favor at the time—what was the deputy's role in the disaster?
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We also learn little about Deng's thoughts or actions during the Great Leap Forward, Mao's catastrophic campaign of rapid collectivization and industrialization that began in 1959 and led, by common scholarly estimate, to the starvation of 30 million Chinese or more.
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But while Deng was simply consigned to house arrest, Liu—who was state president, vice chairman of the party and Mao's designated successor—was abused by Red Guards and denied treatment for diabetes and pneumonia, and he died in custody.
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The ACO reminds me of the "backyard steel mill" initiative during Mao's disastrous Great Leap Forward during the 1950s.
Can Accountable-Care Organizations Improve Health Care While Reducing Costs? Anna Wilde Mathews 2012
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On Nov. 24, as a farewell signal from the heavens, a small tremor shook Beijing when the foundation stone for Mao's mausoleum was laid in Tiananmen Square.
A Shock to the System Michael Fathers 2012
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Coming just months before Mao's death, the expression of popular support was a harbinger of what would soon become the Deng era.
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Mao's widow is said to have been "something of a looker."
A Shock to the System Michael Fathers 2012
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The flutter of mild rebellion came as Deng was struggling with Mao's successor, Hua Guofeng, an ineffectual leader whose uninspired motto was "the two whatevers," meaning that China's leaders should try to rule by continuing to do whatever they believed a deceased Mao would have done.
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