China's curious cult of the mango

Fifty years ago, China was plunged into the most chaotic and traumatic decade of its recent history - the Cultural Revolution. During this period, the nation was gripped by a peculiar hysteria: a mania for mangoes. Benjamin Ramm discovers how the fruit became an object of deep veneration, and a vehicle for the promotion of the cult of Chairman Mao. In 1966 Mao had called on the student Red Guards

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文革期の毛沢東下賜のマンゴー崇拝

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中国のマンゴー信仰