Lei Feng

Lei Feng () () adalah seorang prajurit Tentara Pembebasan Rakyat di Tiongkok. Lei Feng merupakan pahlawan dari era Mao Zedong. Ia meninggal tahun 1962 pada usia 22 tahun ketika terkena tiang telepon yang jatuh. Feng dikenal di Tiongkok karena telah menyisihkan sisa uang dan waktunya untuk membantu orang-orang yang membutuhkan, dan sudah menjadi simbol pengorbanan nasional sejak 1963. Setelah kematian Mao Zedong, media pemerintah terus mempromosikan Lei Feng sebagai model kesungguhan serta pelayanan, dan citranya masih muncul dalam bentuk populer seperti di T-shirt dan memorabilia.Yan Yunxiang: The Individual and the Transformation of Bridewealth in Rural North China, Department of Anthropology, University of California.

Rincian biografi kehidupan Lei Feng dan terutama buku hariannya, yang diduga ditemukan setelah kematiannya, umumnya diyakini sebagai kreasi propaganda; bahkan sejarah Lei Feng terkadang dipertanyakan.John Fraser, The Chinese: portrait of a people (William Collins & Sons, 1980): "Lei Feng is an invention of the propaganda department. Perhaps there was someone once, even with the same name, who actually existed and did good deeds...But the Lei Feng all Chinese people know stretches credulity to special dimensions."Nicholas John Cull et al., Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, (ABC-CLIO, 2003), . Quote: "Lei Feng, a soldier whose diary was alleged to have been found posthumously, was touted by the party as a model citizen; his diary—almost certainly concocted by party propagandists—is filled with praise of Mao and accounts of Lei Feng's efforts to inspire revolutionary zeal among his comrades". Penggunaan Lei yang berkelanjutan sebagai propaganda pemerintah telah menjadi sumber sinisme dan bahkan cemoohan di antara segmen populasi Tiongkok.Fraser, p 100. Quote: "Lei Feng...is also a laughingstock among many Chinese youths, for the simplest of reasons: he never existed, at least not in the form served up by the Party". Namun demikian, fungsi Lei sebagai ikon propaganda telah bertahan selama beberapa dekade dari perubahan politik di Tiongkok.

 Sumber 

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 Bacaan tambahan 

 Edwards, L. (2010). "Military Celebrity in China: The Evolution of 'Heroic and Model Servicemen'". In Jeffreys, Elaine & Edwards, Louise (eds.), Celebrity in China, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong pp. 21–44. ISBN 962-209-088-5.

 Pranala luar 

 Lei Feng T-Shirt Design
 Lei Feng Museum Website in Fushun, Liaoning (Chinese)
 Lei Feng  – chineseposters.net, International Institute of Social History
 Modern art depiction of Lei Feng
 Chinese Heroism Effort Is Met With Cynicism March 5, 2012

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