What if Lei Feng served today?
March 26, 2010 Filed under Center Stage
Dai Xiang
By Zhang Dongya
Lei Feng died in an accident in 1962 at age 22.
After the young soldier’s death, on March 5, 1963, Chairman Mao called n everyone in the country to learn from Lei’s example. The day was a special day to learn from him.
Since then, Lei has been symbolic of “serving the people.
But what if he lived into the 21st Century?
Dai Xiang revives an icon who died 48 years in the modern era. His art tells a new story of Lei Feng that Makes viewers rethink the last decades of change. Photos provided by Dai Xiang
A set of photos named The New Story of Lei Feng by Dai Xiang has restored hope for Lei in modern times: he is seen reading The Selected Works of Mao Zedong at McDonald’s, removing advertisements from poles and posing for a Canon ad.
Lei still appears in his green military uniform, but when juxtaposed with today’s surroundings the timeless figure is clearly living in the wrong era.
