Mao Zedong took an active interest in radical ... the 105-foot-tall sculpture built on Changsha’s river-bound Orange Island remembers the controversial figure as a man in the full blush of ...

Thus according to legend, Chairman Mao Zedong ... works have cemented Orange Island as a revolutionary tourist destination in Changsha, complete with a massive statue of Chairman Mao in his ...

A 32-metre (105 feet) statue of late Chairman Mao Zedong in his youth ... Mao describes the view from Juzi island, in the middle of a river running through Changsha, looking at the Yuelu mountain.

This month, a 120-foot-tall statue of former Communist Party leader Mao Zedong in the village of ... 1967 on the site of an ancient palace. In Changsha, there is a 105-foot-tall Mount Rushmore ...

A huge, 35-ton statue of late Chinese leader Chairman Mao Zedong is en route to Tibet and expected to arrive in Gonggar County in a week. The statue will be placed on the Changsha plaza which is ...

Two Chinese women take a photo in front of a bronze statue of Chairman Mao Zedong in Shaoshan ... evening gala held in the provincial capital Changsha on Monday, along with over 2,000 others.

AND where might Changsha be, you ask? Though many of us are unfamiliar with it, the capital of Hunan province is no slouch in the history department. With a history stretching over 3,000 years, the ...

CHANGSHA - Central ... standards in Shaoshan city, Mao Zedong's hometown. "The move is expected to curtail the production and sale of low-quality Mao statues that harm the tourism market and ...

China is celebrating the 120th anniversary of former leader Mao Zedong's birth ... in the form of more than 2,000 statues that were built to commemorate him. Photographer Cheng Wenjun has ...