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‘‘Serve the People’’ from 1944 to 2005

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In 1944 Mao Zedong published a speech titled ‘‘Serve the People’’ to commemorate the death of an Eighth Route Army Soldier, Zhang Side, a participant
in the Long March who died in the collapse of a kiln. The notion ‘‘Serve the People’’ is regarded as one of Mao’s most significant theoretical contributions to the understanding and application of Marxism in China. In the post-Mao era, ‘‘Serve the People’’ developed into one of the key words and slogans of the Communist Party in China and has significant influence both domestically and internationally. While in 2005, Yan Lianke, one of China’s foremost contemporary novelists, published a novella of the same title featuring another PLA soldier, Wu Dawang, a model soldier selected to work as a household servant for a powerful Division Commander. The political speech and the fiction have a strong interrelationship as the meaning of ‘‘serving the people’’ undergoes dramatic changes. By borrowing and transforming the meaning of this well-known phrase, Yan metaphorically reveals his objection to
political injustice in China. This essay aims to compare and contrast these two pieces, centering on the analysis of the issues: ‘‘Who are ‘the people’?’’ so as to reveal Yan’s metaphoric writing strategy. The ultimate purpose of this essay is to search for further understanding of justice in a global sense. Though the novella is written in a Chinese context, its implication and significance goes beyond any particular political regime.

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