Book Review: Making Your Star Shine in the People's Republic
A talent agent's job is to turn an attractive, young nobody into a star. That is also one of the jobs of the Chinese Communist Party.
The first of the party's modern Chinese celebrities – aside from Mao Zedong and fellow leaders – were military heroes, but the PRC is unique in that it creates and maintains its uniformed heroes as zealously during peaceti…
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