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I remember him as "Uncle Lei Feng." Yes? No? --AStanhope 11:52, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
Hmm, I dont think it's the same "uncle" as "uncle sam" It's just pretty common to call an adult male figure "uncle"(2/29/08) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.159.224.65 (talk) 06:51, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
While I've seen plenty of people wearing Che Guevara t-shirts, I've seldom seen Mao (maybe in the late sixties?), and I don't think I've ever see Lei Feng. He's not really the kind of "hero" that would appeal to many people in the west, IMHO. A bit of CCP propaganda here? Camillus (talk) 21:44, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Lei Feng t-shirts do indeed existin the West. (Scroll down). Any American Chinese language student worthy of the name had one in the early 1990s. Prince Roy (talk) 23:26, 5 August 2008 (UTC)Prince Roy
Lei Feng T-shirts [1] are available in most tourist markets and numerous Chinese clothing markets all across mainland China. Their "pop art" styling combined with a militaristic color scheme are popular among Western tourists and Chinese youth. They are widely available as of Summer 2009.
Today, Lei Feng is seen as a nationalism icon - you can buy T-Shirts of him at Chinatown, Sydney, which are even more popular than T-Shirts of Mao Zedong. Also, as I was present during the 2008 Olympic Torch RelayinCanberra, Australia, I've seen numerous different shirts with Lei Feng on the front. -- 李博杰 | —Talk contribs 07:34, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
I newly received a school magazine with an English article about Lei Feng. I attach it as an interesting document. --Štěpán Böswart (talk) 08:11, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
华侨外院报
2009年3月23日总第130期
Learn from Comrade Lei Feng
Huaqiao Youth Volunteers' Festival
by Monica
Lei Feng, a Mao Zedong—era model soldier, was bom in a family of poor peasants in Hunan on December 18, 1940. Orphaned at an early age, he was fed and brought up by the Party. Then in 1960, at 20, Lei joined the People's Liberation Army and became a Party member.
Lei's greatest desire in life was to be nothing more than "a revolutionary screw that never rusts". Under the guide of that desire, he led a frugal and selfless life and devoted himself heart and soul to the revolution and the people. However, on August 15, 1962, Lei was hit by a falling wooden pole, and died unfortunately. Later, his many good deeds during his living time spread quickly. Therefore, Mao called on the nation to learn from the young martyr by penning the inscription "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng" and since then March had been dedicated to the national "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng" campaign. Also, his diary was printed and reprinted for study. He thus became a symbol of sacrifice for others.
With the coming of March 5, 2009, Huaqiao held the Youth Volunteers' Festival for the first time for the purpose of further promoting the standard of campus culture, developing better qualities of campus activities, expanding volunteer numbers, fully propagating volunteer spirit, and arousing Huaqiao students' zeal for voluntary service.
According to the schedule, the festival was commenced on March 5 and would last till the end of March. All the students on campus were entitled to take part in it, and actually, they were supposed to do so actively. Launched by Youth Volunteers Associations at all levels, the festival comprised four parts: voluntary activities, achievements presenting, speech contest themed "Warmth in Hua Qiao, Volunteer Spirit in My Heart", original voluntary service projects competition and other featured programs organized by Youth Volunteers Associations of respective departments. Of course, there would be an awarding ceremony for those competitions at last. Let s just wait and see.
The festival was a great opportunity to educate us college students, who were mainly born in the 1980s or 1990s and had become ignorant of Lei Feng, let alone his spirit. Worse still, some of us were even unfamiliar to the name "Lei Feng" at all. Meanwhile, the festival offered us a chance to make a contribution to the society by voluntary services.
May the festival close its curtain successfully, may the volunteering spirit spread widely in Huaqiao.
no. the guy was not important militarily. There would have been no difference if the chinese military had or didn't have this guy. he is a cultural figure. stop putting in the tag for "Military History Wikiproject".
An IP editor added a section on "controversy" this morning, detailing their personal (but not unreasonable) views that the photographs depicting Lei Feng's life were a forgery. I rewrote this, and added some sources. Also edited lede a little, and wrote some about how Lei Feng is conceived of by Chinese audiences. These were all pretty perfunctory edits, though, so I welcome improvements or elaborations to them. My statements on perceptions of Lei are vast generalizations, for instance, so more sources offering competing views would be a great addition.
As to the structure of the page, why are there three sections presenting Lei's life as propaganda, as an icon, and as a celebrity? What's the difference? Homunculus (duihua) 15:08, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Apart from that, does anyone disagree with moving the stuff in "cultural importance" up to the propaganda section and renaming that section? It seems not particularly different from information provided by the state, but is merely the latter-day manifestation of LF propaganda. It could be called "Contemporary references" or something. The Sound and the Fury (talk) 18:57, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
I removed the following text on google hits and replaced it with words explaining one is more common than the other.
As of December 2013, this had 11,600 Google hits compared to158,000 for 東北人都是活雷鋒.
Discussion of which is more common should go on the talk page. The article should simply state which is common and which is note. Rincewind42 (talk) 03:46, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
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A recent revision to the article once more declared Lei Feng totally fictitious. This switching back and forth between 'real', 'not real', 'real', 'not real' is not acceptable. I do not believe there is a consensus in academic studies that he was totally fictitious. More than one study has at least considered the possibility that he was an actual PLA soldier. A reference that used to be here and should probably come back is in Spence's book, The Search for Modern China. I have revised the lead paragraph to reflect the possibility that he was an actual soldier.
On the other hand, Lei Feng has been a propaganda subject in China for decades. Discussions of his image and function as a role model should reflect this. Accounts of his life in state media, including newspapers and television should not be taken as factual. Rgr09 (talk) 03:20, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
The lead has been reverted to declare Lei Feng a fictional character again, yet as it currently stands the article discusses two viewpoints; one that Lei Feng was not a historical person, the other that he may have been. Simply adding that he was fictional at the beginning makes the article inconsistent and confusing. Justifying this by saying that anyone who is reasonable would agree with you is not the way wikipedia works. Please discuss this problem here before changing back yet again, please bring sources. This is both courtesy and standard wikipedia procedure. Rgr09 (talk) 06:05, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
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I'm going to look for some sources. Almost every English-language source I've read about Lei Feng at least mentions that his diary was likely an invention, and that his life was largely appropriated for propaganda purposes. Sliderman 06:41, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Pages 35-36 of Michael Lynch's "The People's Republic of China since 1949" has the following: "The Maoist propaganda campaign made further ground with the publication in 1963 of The Diary of Lei Feng. This book purported to be the daily journal of a humble PLA lorry driver whose every thought and action were inspired by his devotion to Mao. The manner in which Lei died, accidentally crushed under the wheels of a truck while faithfully performing his assigned duties, was held up as a symbol of martyrdom for the revolutionary cause. That the story was a total fabrication did not prevent its hero from achieving secular sainthood. Lei Feng was extolled by Maoists as the embodiment of the loyalty of the ordinary Chinese, a loyalty that by implication stood in stark contrast to the time-serving careerism of many in the CCP. Lei Feng's Diary joined the Little Red Book as an essential text for study in China's schools." IMHO this article needs some serious editing, it appears too skewed towards China's "official" version of things, which is usually not the most accurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.243.99.2 (talk) 10:07, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
DrippingGoofball (talk) 02:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that under 'Controversy Among Scholars' it states "A 2008 Xinhua survey noted that a large number elementary school students have vague knowledge of Lei Feng's life, with only 32 percent of the surveyed having read Lei's diary." It seems to me that if 32 percent of elementary school students had read Lei's diary that the word 'only' should not precede it. Bill Garrity 02:10, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
I wouldn’t believe english sources on the matterRJS001 (talk) 15:33, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
Either I can't find it at all, or does it only say: industrial accident (without any further explanation)? Molekuelorbital (talk) 21:25, 14 July 2023 (UTC)