Lei Feng
Lei Feng (Hanzi: 雷锋; Pinyin: Léi Fēng) (18 Desember 1940 – 15 Agustus 1962) adalah seorang prajurit Tentara Pembebasan Rakyat di Tiongkok. Lei Feng merupakan pahlawan dari era Mao Zedong. Ia meninggal pada 1962 di usia 22 tahun ketika terkena tiang telepon yang jatuh. Feng dikenal di Tiongkok sebagai menyisihkan sisa uang dan waktunya untuk membantu orang-orang yang membutuhkan, dan sudah menjadi simbol pengorbanan nasional sejak 1963. Setelah kematian Mao Zedong, media pemerintah terus mempromosikan Lei Feng sebagai model kesungguhan dan pelayanan, dan citranya masih muncul dalam bentuk populer seperti di T-shirt dan memorabilia.[1]
Lei Feng 雷锋 | |
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Lahir | Wangcheng, Hunan | 18 Desember 1940
Meninggal | 15 Agustus 1962 Anshan | (umur 21)
Sebab meninggal | Kecelakaan kerja |
Tempat tinggal | Anshan dan Fushun, Liaoning |
Kebangsaan | Tiongkok |
Kewarganegaraan | Republik Rakyat Tiongkok |
Pekerjaan | Prajurit |
Lei Feng | |||||||||
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Hanzi sederhana: | 雷锋 | ||||||||
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Rincian biografi kehidupan Lei Feng, dan terutama buku hariannya, yang diduga ditemukan setelah kematiannya, umumnya diyakini sebagai kreasi propaganda; bahkan sejarah Lei Feng terkadang dipertanyakan.[2][3] Penggunaan Lei yang berkelanjutan dalam propaganda pemerintah telah menjadi sumber sinisme dan bahkan cemoohan di antara segmen populasi Tiongkok.[4] Namun demikian, fungsi Lei sebagai ikon propaganda telah bertahan selama beberapa dekade dari perubahan politik di Tiongkok.
Sumber
- ^ Yan Yunxiang: The Individual and the Transformation of Bridewealth in Rural North China, Department of Anthropology, University of California.
- ^ John Fraser, The Chinese: portrait of a people (William Collins & Sons, 1980): "Lei Feng is an invention of the propaganda department. Perhaps there was someone once, even with the same name, who actually existed and did good deeds...But the Lei Feng all Chinese people know stretches credulity to special dimensions."
- ^ Nicholas John Cull et al., Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, (ABC-CLIO, 2003), ISBN 1576078205. Quote: "Lei Feng, a soldier whose diary was alleged to have been found posthumously, was touted by the party as a model citizen; his diary—almost certainly concocted by party propagandists—is filled with praise of Mao and accounts of Lei Feng's efforts to inspire revolutionary zeal among his comrades".
- ^ Fraser, p 100. Quote: "Lei Feng...is also a laughingstock among many Chinese youths, for the simplest of reasons: he never existed, at least not in the form served up by the Party".
Bacaan tambahan
- Edwards, L. (2010). "Military Celebrity in China: The Evolution of 'Heroic and Model Servicemen'". In Jeffreys, Elaine & Edwards, Louise (eds.), Celebrity in China, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong pp. 21–44. ISBN 962-209-088-5.
Pranala luar
- Lei Feng T-Shirt Design
- Lei Feng Museum Website in Fushun, Liaoning (Chinese)
- Lei Feng Diarsipkan 2011-10-12 di Wayback Machine. – chineseposters.net, International Institute of Social History
- Modern art depiction of Lei Feng
- Chinese Heroism Effort Is Met With Cynicism March 5, 2012