Monday
11Jul2005
My new "serve the people" bag
Monday, July 11, 2005 at 7:03PM
Bought this bag in Chengdu last week.
The text says "wei ren min fu wu". It means "serve the people" - one of chairman Mao's slogans.
Yesterday in Singapore, I was at an exhibition of Chinese posters and prints. There was one artist there - he was about 55 years old. He spotted my bag and was fascinated with it. Right there in front of the amused audience he showed us how he and his comrades would march during the Cultural Revolution with a similar bag hanging from their shoulders.
This "serve the people" slogan was very popular in 1970s China. Here is the same slogan on a camshaft seal box of the Chang Jiang (long river) motorbike. (From the changjiangunlimited.com site)
Here is another poster from that time
The text says "quan xin quan yi wei ren min fu wu". It means "serve the people with all my heart". (From the maopost.com site)
The text says "wei ren min fu wu". It means "serve the people" - one of chairman Mao's slogans.
Yesterday in Singapore, I was at an exhibition of Chinese posters and prints. There was one artist there - he was about 55 years old. He spotted my bag and was fascinated with it. Right there in front of the amused audience he showed us how he and his comrades would march during the Cultural Revolution with a similar bag hanging from their shoulders.
This "serve the people" slogan was very popular in 1970s China. Here is the same slogan on a camshaft seal box of the Chang Jiang (long river) motorbike. (From the changjiangunlimited.com site)
Here is another poster from that time
The text says "quan xin quan yi wei ren min fu wu". It means "serve the people with all my heart". (From the maopost.com site)
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"Serve the people" that's one of my favourite slogan and i like using it when people say " You work too hard!" That's a cool bag , i like it:-)
Hello Oyu,
Nice to hear the words of Chairman Mao. How is chairman oyu?
Gaojing, nice to hear from you too. I too like that bag.
i saw the same bag in beijing, will pick it up :), also need to think of a nice birthday gift for sunny gao, happy bithday again
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Hi Preetam,
Steph here. Glad to see you again at the conference last night. Been a while since we last chatted.
It was a good session overall. Touched on a variety of topics. Great job, you guys!
Oh, and I forgot to ask you abt these cool picture comment function.
Hey! Thanks for the great advice during the Woodlands Library workshop. Gonna be a teacher in 2 years time. So would be good to use blogs n flickr as ways of lesson plans :)
Hi preetam,have you ever visited the uttaranchal region in north india? There is this place called valley of flowers, where people go trekking. my cuz left for the trek today. supposed to be better than the valley of flowers in switzerland. am pasting this link for anyone interested.
http://www.indiatravelog.com/uttranchal/valley-of-flowers.html
good to see you too stephanie, the picture comment is done using Fotonoter. google for it.
Thanks Debbie,
Thanks guru, I have heard of the place. Once I met a guy in Bangkok, he was from that place..he told me some stories about that place.
I like this bag n also like this sentence. seems like it had created a miracle, a creation in theory field.
Is it just me or does the guy in the last picture have weird looking hair?
Hi.
Where can I buy that bag? I really like to have that one :)
Thanks
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