Thirty one years on after his death, public reverence for late Chinese leader Mao Zedong remains strong. ... 17,000 people pay homage to Mao's Mausoleum (Xinhua) Updated: 2007-12-27 10:16.

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The crackdown reinforced Communist Party control Tiananmen Square is a vast space in the center of Beijing with monumental, communist-era buildings along two sides and the mausoleum of Mao Zedong, who ...

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Thirty one years on after his death, public reverence for late Chinese leader Mao Zedong remains strong. More than 17,000 people visited the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall in Beijing on Dec. 26, his ...

Mao Zedong: King of Kitsch With Mao-abilia everywhere, ... In Beijing, a short stroll from the marble and granite mausoleum where his gray-suited corpse is still on display, ...

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Later, he paid his respects by offering flowers at the Mao Zedong Memorial, dedicated to the founding leader of the People's Republic of China. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment, and ...

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Beijing (AsiaNews) – Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited Mao Zedong's mausoleum in the centre of Tiananmen Square to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the Great Helmsman's birth.