Chairman Mao's China

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A large statue of Mao Tse-tung is a popular photo op at his birthplace in Shaoshan. The man who fought warlords, the Japanese and the U.S.-supported Nationalists and proclaimed the birth of a new China was born here in 1893, the son of a a comfortably well-off farmer.

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( Susan Spano / Los Angeles Times )

A large statue of Mao Tse-tung is a popular photo op at his birthplace in Shaoshan. The man who fought warlords, the Japanese and the U.S.-supported Nationalists and proclaimed the birth of a new China was born here in 1893, the son of a a comfortably well-off farmer.