Lei Feng

Lei Feng (18 Disember 1940 – 15 Ogos 1962) ialah seorang askar dalam Tentera Pembebasan Rakyat yang menjadi sasaran beberapa kempen propaganda besar di China. Yang paling terkenal dalam kempen ini pada tahun 1963 mempromosikan slogan, "Ikuti teladan Komrad Lei Feng."In Chinese, . Lei digambarkan sebagai rakyat contoh, dan orang ramai digalakkan untuk mencontohi sikap tidak mementingkan diri, kesopanan, dan pengabdiannya kepada Mao Zedong. Selepas kematian Mao, media kerajaan terus mempromosikan Lei Feng sebagai model kesungguhan dan perkhidmatan, dan imejnya masih muncul dalam bentuk popular seperti pada baju-T dan memorabilia.Yan Yunxiang: The Individual and the Transformation of Bridewealth in Rural North China, Department of Anthropology, University of California.

Butiran biografi kehidupan Lei Feng, dan terutamanya diarinya, yang kononnya ditemui selepas kematiannya, umumnya dipercayai sebagai ciptaan propaganda; malah sejarah Lei Feng sendiri kadangkala dipersoalkan.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 berterusan Lei dalam propaganda kerajaan telah menjadi sumber sinisme dan juga cemuhan di kalangan segmen penduduk Cina.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 begitu, fungsi Lei sebagai ikon propaganda telah bertahan selama beberapa dekad perubahan politik di China.

Rujukan

 Bacaan lanjut 
 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. .

Pautan luar

 Lei Feng Museum Website in Fushun, Liaoning (Chinese)
 Propaganda posters of Lei Feng from Dutch academic collections

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