Chairman Mao Zedong was not keen to taste the mangoes gifted by Pakistani foreign minister. So he passed on the unwanted mango to his supporters. From then, mangoes became a mania in China

1. Dr.A.PRABAHARAN
RESEARCH DIRECTOR
PUBLIC ACTION1

2.  Mangoes were occasionally
found in China prior to 1968
 But it became a craze after
4 August 1968
 Mian Arshad Hussain, foreign
minister of Pakistan gifted a
crate of mangoes to Mao
Zedong, Chairman of the
Communist Party of China on
4 August 1968
 Mao was not interested in
tasting an alien fruit
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3.  Mao sent his Pakistani gift
of mangoes to his band of
supporters who were
agitating against Mao’s
policies in Qinghua
University (Tsinghua
University now)
 Mao is not used to sending
gifts
 When the crate of mangoes
came from Mao, his
followers were in tears
 They were not interested in
eating but preserving as
lifelong gifts
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4.  Red Guards were formed in 1966
as a militant student group by CCP
in universities, colleges and high
schools to propagate Communist
ideologies especially the Cultural
Revolution
 When the Cultural Revolution
failed and led to a massive
famine, Red Guards became real
red to CCP
 Red Guards were not willing to
listen to Mao’s call to go to
villages
 Here Mao used his Workers –
Peasants against the Red Guards
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5.  Factory Workers were
called as “The Worker-
Peasant Mao Zedong
Thought Propanganda
team”
 They were pitted
against the Red Guards
 Mao send his unwanted
mango crate to his
thought propanganda
team
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6.  When the crate of mangoes
came to factory workers
fighting against the Red
Guards in Qinghua university
campus, they went joyfully
mad
 They were not able to believe
that Chairman Mao had sent a
gift
 Thought Propaganda team
was touching the mangoes,
screaming non-stop
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7.  The news about Chairman’s
mango gift to factory workers
went viral across China
 As everyone cannot have
Chairman’s mango gift, they
made wax models, art work,
posterrs and other
paraphernelia with mangoes
 Soon mangomania gripped all
over China
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8.  Although thousands of
workers were mad after
mango gift from their
Chairman Mao
 They are not aware about
Pakistani connection
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