Now the 18-month-long episode, which came at the height of the Cultural Revolution, has been unearthed by a new exhibition.
The mango mania began in the autumn of 1968 when Pakistan's Foreign minister arrived in Beijing and presented Chairman Mao with a case of the fruit.
In turn, the Great Helmsman decided to use the exotic fruit, then utterly unknown in most of China, to make a political statement.
He sent the case, containing roughly 40 mangoes, to a group of workers occupying the campus of Tsinghua university.
Astonished by the miraculous gift, they decided to send one mango to each of Beijing's most important factories.
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