Volume 54, Number 19 · December 6, 2007
Thirsty Dragon at the Olympics
By Dai Qing
The picture on this page was taken by a People's Pictorial photographer in 1953. The sixty-year-old Mao Zedong had just finished writing a calligraphic inscription that read 'Celebrate the successful completion of the Guanting Reservoir Project.' The man sitting next to him was my father-in-law, Wang Sen, the project manager for the dam.
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