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“O Little Town of Shaoshan”
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 17 March 2010
Shaoshan’s kitsch magnificence is almost too much for words, so I turned to a traveling companion who is never short for them for this guest post about our recent trip. In early 1990, in the days before he was himself the subject of fulsome leftist hagiographies, New York Times Beijing Correspondent Nicholas Kristof visited Shaoshan and [...] Related posts:Maoist Kitsch, Five Ways
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Maoist Kitsch, Five Ways
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 15 March 2010
After two months on the road, even two weeks at home in Changsha was too much for some of us. So we hit the road this weekend for a quick daylong pilgrimage to Shaoshan, the birthplace of Mao Zedong.
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