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2 unusual facts about Serve the People


Serve the People

In 2007, actress Cameron Diaz caused a minor controversy by carrying a bag with the "Serve the People" slogan in Chinese on a tour of Peru.

Writer Yan Lianke wrote a satirical novel set during the Cultural Revolution titled Serve the People about an affair between the wife of a military officer and a peasant soldier.


Zhongnanhai

The view behind the entrance is shielded by a traditional screen wall with the slogan "Serve the People", written in the handwriting of Mao Zedong.


see also

Earl Dewitt Hutto

After Hutto announced his retirement in 1994, Republican Joe Scarborough was elected to serve the people of Florida's 1st congressional district.

Jeffersonian democracy

Historian Sean Wilentz (2006) argues that as a practical politician elected to serve the people Jefferson had to negotiate solutions, not insist on his own version of abstract positions.