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20 Oct 2005 03:55:41 AM |
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Chairman Mao is hyped as a hero for the tourist masses |
Chairman Mao is hyped as a hero for the tourist masses
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article320800.ece
By David Eimer in Hunan Province
Published: 20 October 2005
The Chairman's image is dangling from the mirror of the taxi that takes
me to Mao's childhood home in Shaoshan in southern China. "He's my good
luck charm," grins the driver. However surprising this may seem, it
certainly appears to be working.
Since China's State Council designated this year as the year of Red
Tourism, an initiative designed to re-kindle faith in the present-day
Communist Party (CCP), a booming Shaoshan has become an unlikely
must-see on the tourist trail.
Mao Zedong
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/f03e1d34fdfda005
Yanan
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/30b33c60fd6743df
Long March
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/b783acf46c89496e
Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/iws6
A Blueprint for the Future
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/59c28cd6dfe6f60f
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| User: "cirejcon" |
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| Title: Re: Chairman Mao is hyped as a hero for the tourist masses |
20 Oct 2005 09:39:45 AM |
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maff wrote:
Chairman Mao is hyped as a hero for the tourist masses
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article320800.ece
By David Eimer in Hunan Province
Published: 20 October 2005
The Chairman's image is dangling from the mirror of the taxi that takes
me to Mao's childhood home in Shaoshan in southern China. "He's my good
luck charm," grins the driver. However surprising this may seem, it
certainly appears to be working.
Since China's State Council designated this year as the year of Red
Tourism, an initiative designed to re-kindle faith in the present-day
Communist Party (CCP), a booming Shaoshan has become an unlikely
must-see on the tourist trail.
I was in Beijing last year. I saw Mao's picture in three places:
- On the side of the Forbidden City
- On the money
- On little waving "Micky Mao" watches you could buy on every
street corner.
As far as I could tell, Beijing was about as communist as L.A. (and
a lot less so than Berkley).
-jc
Mao Zedong
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/f03e1d34fdfda005
Yanan
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/30b33c60fd6743df
Long March
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/b783acf46c89496e
Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/iws6
A Blueprint for the Future
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/59c28cd6dfe6f60f
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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| Title: Re: Chairman Mao is hyped as a hero for the tourist masses |
20 Oct 2005 09:47:21 AM |
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"cirejcon" <cirejcon@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:1129819185.650653.85000@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
maff wrote:
Chairman Mao is hyped as a hero for the tourist masses
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article320800.ece
By David Eimer in Hunan Province
Published: 20 October 2005
The Chairman's image is dangling from the mirror of the taxi that
takes me to Mao's childhood home in Shaoshan in southern China. "He's
my good luck charm," grins the driver. However surprising this may
seem, it certainly appears to be working.
Since China's State Council designated this year as the year of Red
Tourism, an initiative designed to re-kindle faith in the present-day
Communist Party (CCP), a booming Shaoshan has become an unlikely
must-see on the tourist trail.
I was in Beijing last year. I saw Mao's picture in three places:
- On the side of the Forbidden City
- On the money
- On little waving "Micky Mao" watches you could buy on every
street corner.
As far as I could tell, Beijing was about as communist as L.A. (and
a lot less so than Berkley).
The PBS News Hour did a five-part series on China's economy. One of
their highlights was an entrepreneur who has been making big
bucks selling Mao kitsch.
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
"The amount of violations of human rights in a country
is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints
about human rights violations heard from there.
The greater the number of complaints being aired,
the better protected are human rights in that country."
-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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