Maoist History Images Mao Poster Mao Statue (permanent wave) Red Guards burn books Mao greets Che Guevara, 1961 Mao swims the Yangtze in 1966 “We’ve seen the Tian’nmen,” a rural wall painting from the Great Leap Forward “Backyard furnaces” of the Great Leap Forward Members of the Li Yi Zhe group, 1974. Source: Duli pinglun. Li Yi Zhe Manifesto at the Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum, 2014.