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	Mao suit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the suit became a symbol of proletarian unity, and was regularly worn by Communist Party cadres until the 1990s when it was largely replaced by the Western business suit.
		The Mao suit remained the standard formal dress for the first and second generation of PRC leaders such as Deng Xiaoping.
		The military-green version of the suit is more often worn, usually by civilian party officials wishing to demonstrate control over (or comeraderie with) the military.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mao_suit (526 words)

	Evolution and revolution: Chinese dress 1700s-1990s - Mao suit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mao had worn this style of suit since 1927 but it was only after 1949 that it was adopted by the majority of the Chinese population.
		It is known in the West as the Mao suit.
		Mao Zedong is wearing a modified Sun Yat-sen suit with turn-down military-style collar, four patch pockets and five centre-front buttons.
	www.phm.gov.au /hsc/evrev/mao_suit.htm (1286 words)

	Mao suit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Mao suit is the western name for the style of male dress known as the Sun Zhongshan suit (Zhong1shan1 zhuang1 or Zhong1shan1 fu2), named after Sun Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) who introduced it shortly after the founding of the Republic of China.
		Incorporating elements of German military dress including a turndown collar and four symmetrically placed pockets and based on a suit popular with Chinese men in Japan and Southeast Asia, the Zhongshan suit was an attempt to cater to modern sensibilities without completely adopting western styles.
		After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the suit became a symbol of proletarian unity, and was regularly worn by party cadres.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/m/ma/mao_suit.html (285 words)

	Mao Zedong: Father Of Chinese Revolution
		Mao considered that he had been married only three times--his first wife was a peasant girl whom his parents married him to when he was only 14 and she was 20.
		Mao Tse-tung was born in a tile-roofed house surrounded by rice fields and low hills in Shaoshan, a village in Hunan Province, in central China, on Dec. 26, 1893.
		Mao, cut off in the countryside, was condemned for his peasant "deviation," though he was not often informed of the latest shifts in line or of his demotions until much later.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/asia/091076mao-father.html (10929 words)

	Morning Sun \| Red. Red Sun \| Shades of Mao
		As Edgar Snow wrote in the early 1960s: "What makes him [Mao] formidable is that he is not just a party boss but by many millions of Chinese is quite genuinely regarded as a teacher, statesman, strategist, philosopher, poet laureate, national hero, head of the family, and greatest liberator in history.
		Despite the Chinese authorities' denunciations of the BBC for broadcasting Dr. Li Zhisui's revelations concerning Mao's sex life in early 1994, one could speculate that popular opinion in China was probably neither particularly outraged nor surprised by the latest proof of the Chairman's talents.
		While in his later years Mao was a wrinkled, green-toothed, slack-jawed old man, the official description of the Chairman was of a vibrant and healthy individual whose features remained unravaged by that mighty sculptor time.
	www.morningsun.org /red/barme_everymao.html (1034 words)

	!Mans shops, Suits, Shirts, Pants, jeans pants, T-shirt, Cotton shirts, Coton pants, Jeans shirts, Suits clothes, ...
		A suit is generally accompanied by a dress shirt and tie (for men), or a blouse (for women).
		The "Mao suit" was worn by most Chinese political leaders (including Chiang Kai-shek), until the mid-to-late 20th Century, and is known as the "Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) suit" (after its creator) in Chinese.
		The most formal type of dress shirt worn with a standard suit is a shirt with French cuffs, which use cuff links (or the lesser known silk knots) to close, but this type of shirt is optional, and essentially up to the preferences of the wearer and the vagaries of fashion.
	www.maleshops.com (4031 words)

	fashion designer suits, wearing apparel, fashion clothes, fashion history - Suits
		A suit is generally accompanied by, for men, a shirt and tie, or for women, a blouse.
		The most formal type of dress shirt worn with a standard suit is a shirt with French cuffs, which use cuff links (or the lesser known silk knots) to close, but this type of shirt is optional, and essentially up to the preferences of the wearer.
		Drape suits are a 1950s British variation of the 1940s American Zoot suit but redesigned to resemble the male fashions of the Edwardian period of British history.
	www.surefashion.com /suit.htm (2566 words)

	boys' Mao jackets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is for the pen (unlike the Western suit, the Zhong-Shan suit is not to be unbuttoned unless it is to be taken off, thus pens cannot be put in inner-pockets).
		The Zhong-Shan suit became the standard outfit for officials of the Republic of China and its ruling party Kuomingtang (the Nationalist Party).
		During the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, these (along with all things military) became highly fashionable as the army was seen as the guardian of the revolution, unaffected by the upheavals that prevailed among the civilians.
	histclo.com /style/suit/mao.html (790 words)

	Buddhist Channel \| News - Asia \| Mao turns Buddhist for Tibet
		A huge statue of Mao Zedong, whose Red Armies entered the deeply Buddhist Himalayan region in 1951 to extend Communist Party rule, is to stand in a newly built square in the town of Gongga.
		Earlier statues of Mao, born in Shaoshan village in the countryside outside Changsha in 1893, depicted him to fall into line with the needs of the ultra-leftist Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, when he was worshipped almost as a god across China.
		Many still revere photos of Mao that are pasted on to the walls of their homes.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=1,2508,0,0,1,0 (496 words)

	He Now Suits China's Leaders in Western, Three-Piece Outfits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mao himself, on display in a crystal sarcophagus across the square since just after his death in 1976, is another ad for Mr.
		But these suits are mainly for formal occasions, often abroad, when Chinese leaders want a reminder of their country's differentness, now diminishing, from the West.
		He gave Mao a button fly on his trousers, because the late leader preferred simple, old-fashioned things, and extra-wide trouser legs, because Mao didn't want to have to take off his shoes to change pants.
	www.pacificnet.net /jue/chinanews/archives/docs/980731b.html (1025 words)

	Zhongshan suit - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		A Mao suit is also commonly known in the west as a Mao Suit.
		Mao suit is similar with Zhongshan suit; I think they are two styles of one form.
		Mao suit, I think refers to the general style of the Zhongshan suit.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=2211 (1153 words)

	Bobbin' and Weavin'
		Mao's rise to power inspired a fashion revolution that's outlasted most trends.
		Though originally invented by Sun Yat-sen, the government-issue "Mao suits," as they came to be called, were popular during the Cultural Revolution as symbols of solidarity and dedication to the Party.
		We even preferred Beijing's Mao suits and muted tones to Shanghai's miniskirts, and smelly hairspray reminiscent of the self-consciousness we thought we'd left back in New York.
	china.candidemedia.com /html/dispatches/eight/8featured.html (510 words)

	BOOKS: MAO: THE UNKNOWN STORY, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday - 16 July 2005
		Mao shunned all constraints of responsibility and duty; he rejected any objective moral code; and he took delight in social upheavals and destruction, even the violent overthrow of society.
		Mao was totally devoted to power and, as the Chinese Communist Party was bankrolled and controlled by Moscow, Mao followed the twists and turns of Kremlin policy without question, while other Chinese communists showed more independence.
		In contrast, Mao had been bankrolled and armed by Moscow, assiduously supported by fellow-travellers and communist parties in the West, and by adopting the image of a Chinese intellectual was seen as a moderniser and democrat.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2005jul16_b2.html (1417 words)

	boys' suit jackets : styles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Many basic suits such as the sailor work was endlessly reworked in an amazingly different number of styles, not only the different styles of modern navies, but in styles that differed greatly from the masucline uniform of the sailor which traditional suits were modeled on.
		The first sack suits were rather baggy, less form fitting than the standard frock suit at the time that the sack suit appeared in the 184os and became well accepted in the 1850s.
		The skeleton suit was one of the first specialized styles worn by children as opposed to scaled down version of the styles worn by one's fathers.
	histclo.com /style/suit/suitjs.html (3721 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Mao suit
		The Mao suit is the western name for the style of male attire known as the Sun Zhongshan suit or Zhongshan suit (中山装, Zhong1shan1 zhuang1, or 中山服, Zhong1shan1 fu2), named after Sun Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) who introduced it shortly after the founding of the Republic of China.
		Incorporating elements of German military dress including a turndown collar and four symmetrically placed pockets and based on a form of attire popular with contemporary Chinese men in Japan and Southeast Asia, the Zhongshan suit was an attempt to cater to "modern" sensibilities without completely adopting Western styles whole cloth.
		During the 1990s, it began to be worn with increasing infrequence by leaders of Jiang Zemin's generation.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Mao_suit (453 words)

	Ivy I-chu Chang MMLA 2001
		It was by accident that Mao suite was used by Tseng Kwong Chi as his trademark; however, it became his short cut to art business as well as a pass to the social gatherings of New York's celebrities.
		Mao Suit was used by Kwong Chi to fabricate his photographic persona as well as identity.
		With artifice, Tseng made use of the best timing to employ Mao suit as a sign to fabricate his ideal ego, and then conducted his role enactment along the circuit mirroring the leftists' mourning for the loss of ideal, the imperialist gaze, and the artist's primary narcissism.
	www.cwru.edu /affil/sce/Texts_2001/Chang.html (5146 words)

	Chinese tunic suit, Zhongshan Zhuang, Mao suit, Mao tunic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The tunic suit has dominated Chinese fashion for many years and is known to Westerners as the "Mao tunic" or "Mao suit".
		It is a mistake, however, to associate the style with Mao Zedong.
		For it is called by the Chinese them-selves "Zhongshan Zhuang" or "Zhongshan suit" as it was a uniform that Dr. Sun Yat-sen (better known among the Chinese as Sun Zhongshan) liked to wear and recommended to the people of the country.
	www.bravochina.com /clothing/tunic_suit.html (243 words)

	Deng Xiaoping, Leader Who Turned China Toward Capitalism
		Mao unleashed the Cultural Revolution in 1966 to destroy his adversaries in the party.
		Mao's chosen successor, Lin Biao, was discovered plotting a coup and was killed in a plane crash; Mao feared nuclear war was imminent with the Soviet Union; the economy was in chaos, and Chou had cancer.
		Mao died in September that year, and the Gang of Four was arrested the following month.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/0220obit-deng3.html (2039 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After a Communist government led by Mao Zedong took control in China in 1949, Chinese people increasingly had to wear the so-called Mao suit, a jacket and trousers of heavy, dark blue cotton.
		After Mao died in 1976, the Chinese began again to choose their own styles of dress, and interest revived in the traditional clothing of China's many ethnic minorities.
		Men's and women's tailored business suits, for example, can be regarded as simply two versions of the same basic garment, but they are generally very different in shape and in details, such as on which side the buttons are placed.
	www.wholesale-blouse-manufacturer.com /lady_blouse_wholesale_turkey.htm (2255 words)

	Switch\|Journal
		The suit was first popular in the school of cadres, and then spread to universities, societies, and finally took the overall shape of a new fashion.
		Tunic suits and cadre suits were the standard dress for everyone, independent of age, profession, social status, or sex.
		Even the general suit was put away since it was a blockage for communication between general and solider.
	switch.sjsu.edu /nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php?artc=52 (942 words)

	Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day: Fashion Archives
		Talking of the Mao, the Manolo, he of shoe-blogging fame, surprised his legions of admiring readers last weekend when he mentioned the tarnished tyrant in the course of a post about shopping.
		For the example, the most horrible, deadening, life-sucking piece of the fashion ever invented, it is the Mao suit, for it reduces the individual to the mere cog in the ideological machine.
		Happily we live in the system in which the marketplace it is free to deliver to the peoples the beautiful clothes, enabling each individual to dress in the manner he or she chooses.
	www.eamonn.com /fashion (228 words)

	China's ambitions - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Asia - News
		In place of the monochromatic Mao suit, the Chinese dress in colorful garb from their low-cost factories or fancy import shops.
		The changes wrought by Mao's successors have unlocked the dynamism of the most populous society on earth.
		President Hu Jintao, Mao's latest heir, said last year: ''History indicates that indiscriminately copying Western political systems is a blind alley for China." China needs to borrow with care, but reliance on Mao's top-down communist system is an invitation to corruption and outbursts of popular discontent.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/07/05/chinas_ambitions (920 words)

	National Geographic Traveler Article: Face-Off in Tiananmen Square
		On a rostrum above Mao's portrait is where successive Communist leaders of China have stood to review waves of high-stepping troops and untold numbers of tanks and missile launchers, while up to a million onlookers cheer their nation's armed might and a day off work.
		When I finally reach Mao's side of the square, I look around at all the Chinese tourists milling about, who for the most part seem to be engaged in looking around at all the other Chinese tourists.
		Turning from the school-bus-size portrait of Mao, I spy, far away at the opposite end of the square near the Chairman's mausoleum, a rendering of Colonel Sanders that towers several stories high—emblazoned on the side of a building housing the largest KFC outlet in the world.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /traveler/articles/1084beijing.html (475 words)

	Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan
		The city has discarded its Mao suit in favor of a silk bikini: rather, it's wearing a designer Shanghai Tang silk Mao suit over the silk bikini and high heels instead of traditional Chinese shoes.
		On this side is the city of the future: Pudong's special economic zone, still highlighted by the multi-scintillating Jetsons-style Oriental Pearl TV tower, unbeatably dubbed by Fidel Castro as "the vertical Wall of China".
		Until the triumph of Great Helmsman Mao Zedong in 1949, Shanghai was bisected by foreign powers: these neighborhoods that resist the Caterpillar machines faintly evoke an early-20th-century Europe that decades of Stalinist pseudo-architecture could not erase.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/EJ29Ad02.html (2290 words)

	ART FOR A CHANGE: The Pervasive Ignorance of Westerners
		In the China of today party officials have traded the Mao look for the western suit and tie, and with joint ventures with foreign corporations, capitalism is hardly a “world utterly alien” to China.
		In 1979 the photographer donned a Mao suit and entered a New York restaurant, only to be mistaken for a Chinese Communist official.
		He would pose himself in that Mao suit standing in front of tourist spots around the world in snapshots that addressed issues of personal, cultural, and national identity.
	www.art-for-a-change.com /blog/2005/01/pervasive-ignorance-of-westerners.html (308 words)

	China’s great wax leaders - Autumn 1999: CHINA: The Revolution at 50 - MSNBC.com
		Deng, dubbed the Great Architect for having launched the current era of economic reforms, welcomes visitors in a gray wool Mao suit, standing in front of the glossy fl Red Flag limousine he used to review the troops during the 35th National Day celebrations in 1984.
		Mao gazes pensively from a bench atop Mount Lushan before a vista of hazy blue mountains and a sea of clouds.
		According to the state-run Beijing Youth Daily, a figure of him dressed in a fl suit and holding aloft an Olympic-style flame had been on display, but fault was found in his likeness.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3072150 (818 words)

	TIME Asia Magazine: Getting To Know One Another -- Sep. 19, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mao had been seriously ill for weeks: resuscitation equipment was hidden behind potted plants in his residence in case he collapsed during the meeting.
		But then he was whisked to meet Mao, and the history books describe a meeting of civilizations that was as weird and awkward as it was historic.
		Mao and Zhou wanted to discuss the recent coup attempt by Lin Biao, Mao's chosen successor; Nixon didn't seem to understand them.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501050919-1103645,00.html (779 words)

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