The Chinese Communist party celebrated its 90th birthday on July 1. In the days prior to this event, the airwaves were full of historical dramas depicting heroic People’s Liberation Army soldiers and party cadres battling various enemies. There is a new, neo-Maoist faction within the party, led by Bo Xilai, the party chief of the western city of Chongqing, promoting the singing of classic Communist songs such as “The East is Red” in work-places and schools across the country. Henry Kissinger, in China for a book tour, managed to attend a sing-along with some 70,000 other people.
7月1日，中國共產黨慶祝了自己的90歲誕辰。在之前的一些日子，電視廣播里鋪天蓋地地播放著各種歷史劇，講述英勇的人民解放軍戰士和黨員干部與各色敵人做斗爭的事跡。中共內部出現了一個以重慶市委書記薄熙來為首的新毛派陣營，他們提倡在全國各地工作場所和學校唱紅歌，比如《東方紅》。亨利?基辛格(Henry Kissinger)來中國為自己的新書進行宣傳時，設法出席了一場有大約7萬人參加的唱紅歌活動。