A woman stands in front of a giant portrait of Mao Zedong at the gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing on Sept. 9, 2016, the 40th anniversary of the death of Communist China’s founding father. AFP
Forty years after his death at the age of 82, late supreme leader Mao Zedong still presents a political dilemma to the ruling Chinese Communist Party. Continue reading
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Aug 29, 2016 — Press Release from Embrace Australian Values Alliance (EAVA)
-the City of Sydney is seeking advice from foreign affairs
29 August 2016
Spokesman of the Embracing Australian Values Alliance (EAVA), John Hugh said that the leading members of the EAVA held a talk with Ms. Monica Barone, CEO of the City of Sydney today on the topic of leasing Town Hall to the International Cultural Exchange Association of Australia (ICEAA) for a concert praising Mao Tse-tung, the worst mass murderer in the human history. Continue reading
Porcelain figures depicting the Cultural Revolution on a stall in Beijing (AP)
How beating a class enemy became a favourite pastime in the China of Chairman Mao
The Cultural Revolution
by Frank Dikötter, Bloomsbury, £25 Continue reading
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