Mao's Golden Mangoes and the Cultural Revolution, edited by Alfreda Murck

In August 1968, Mao was presented with several boxes of fruit by Pakistan's Foreign Minister. The consequence was mango mania. Mao didn't eat the fruit – or even pass it on to his cronies; rather he chose to instruct his bodyguard Wang Dongxing to distribute the fruit to the Worker-Peasant Thought Propaganda Teams then in the late stages of suppressing the excesses of the student Red Guards at Tsinghua University in what was to prove one of the terminal acts of the Cultural Revolution.