chairman mao

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found in a gift shop next to the fu-zi temple in nanjing. in china there seems to be a still unbroken reverence for the former chairman. from a westerner's point of view this seems a bit bewildering, just having read wikipedia's entry about this leader of his people: the number of victims of the chinese revolution and the following 30 years is estimated as 10 millions. strange - as so many things in china.

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