Jottings from the Granite Studio

A Qing historian reads the newspaper…

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How Now Mao?: The Chairman’s annual face lift

September 17th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Perhaps I’m the only one, but whenever I’m standing in Tiαnαnmen square, one thing I always wonder–after A) could I outrun a tank and B) No, I don’t want to see your special student art exhibit for foreign friends–is just how do they keep the giant portrait of Mao so shiny and new?
Now we know. [...]

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