Mao at Tiananmen

Before and after the Cultural Revolution, too, Mao would not be missed in public at Tian’anmen, so for example during parades celebrating the Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s or during the Tian’anmen protests in 1989. Indeed, his presence at Tian’anmen, which played a role in paintings of Tian’anmen immediately since 1949 (e.g. Wu 2005:74), and was reflected in a set of stamps issued in celebration of the establishment of the People’s Republic (Wu 2005:72).