Lenin's Kisses (Chinese: 受活; pinyin: Shòu huó) is a novel by the Chinese writer Yan Lianke, published in 2004.
[1] A village collects funds for buying the corpse of Vladimir Lenin and to build a monument around it.
[2] The profits of the project consumes the village and the solidarity of its citizens.
[3] The chief of the district is able to make grand constructions, until his superiors find out what is happening[4] "That the dead body of socialism's most important role model is being commercialized, can serve as an illustration of the hypercapitalism of contemporary China", according to Klassekampen.
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