"To Read Too Many Books is Harmful" (Mao Zedong)
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27.
Peng Zhaomin
1984, June
Good character and scholarship
Pinxue jianyou
Chongqing chubanshe, print no. 8114.209
Call number: BG E13/249
28.
Zhang Anpu
1984, March
Books are a window on knowledge - Young friends, enthusiastically love books
Shuji shi zhishide chuanghu - Qingnian pengyoumen, re'ai shuji ba
Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, print no. 8081.13950
Call number: BG E13/254
Under these conditions, learning, scholarship and books were rehabilitated. As we can see in No. 27, books again were given as rewards, for example for studying the model behaviour of Lei Feng, for being a good member of the Communist Youth League, for helping the elderly. But the covers of the books testify to contents that are no longer politically correct, but aimed at improving one's self. In short, the printed word is no longer seen as potentially suspect, fraught with political heresy, but a true window on knowledge.
