Dripping Water Cave

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Mao secluded himself here for 11 days in June 1966, 3km outside of Shaoshan village, to contemplate the start of the Cultural Revolution. His retreat was actually a low-slung, concrete and steel bunker (not the cave, which was a few kilometres away). Members of the Mao clan are entombed nearby.

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