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China, Mao

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.

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. (Susan Spano / Los Angeles Times)

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Mao, China

Susan Spano / Los Angeles Times

Maos idyllic-looking childhood home is nestled in a narrow green valley shouldered by rice paddies in Shaoshan. Nearby is his clans ancestral temple, where Mao started a night school for farmers in 1917, an early effort to mobilize Chinas rural poor.

Maos idyllic-looking childhood home is nestled in a narrow green valley shouldered by rice paddies in Shaoshan. Nearby is his clans ancestral temple, where Mao started a night school for farmers in 1917, an early effort to mobilize Chinas rural poor. (Susan Spano / Los Angeles Times)

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