↑ Yan Yunxiang:THE INDIVIDUAL AND TRANSFORMATION OF BRIDEWEALTH IN RURAL NORTH CHINA. Department of Anthropology, University of California.
↑ John Fraser, "The Chinese: portrait of a people", (William Collins & Sons, 1980) | quote: "Lei Feng is an invention of the propaganda department. Perhaps there was someone once, even with the same name, who actually existed and did good deeds...But the Lei Feng all Chinese people know stretches credulity to special dimensions."
↑ Nicholas John Cull et al, "Propaganda and mass persuasion: a historical encyclopedia," (ABC-CLIO, 2003), ISBN 1576078205. | quote: "Lei Feng, a soldier whose diary was alleged to have been found posthumously, was touted by the party as a model citizen; his diary—almost certainly concocted by party propagandists—is filled with praise of Mao and accounts of Lei Feng's efforts to inspire revolutionary zeal among his comrades"
↑ Fraser, p 100. | Quote: "Lei Feng...is also a laughingstock among many Chinese youths, for the simplest of reasons:he never existed, at least not in the form served up by the Party"
