Sculpting Mao's trek
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International Herald Tribune; 8/21/2004; Craig Simons
Craig Simons
International Herald
Tribune
08-21-2004
Wang Wenhai, the 53-year-old
self-proclaimed Yanan Clay Sculpture King, has three goals. First,
he wants to build a 426-foot-tall statue of Mao Zedong in Yanan, the
Chinese Communist Party's historic revolutionary base in the
northwest. Then he wants to make a giant memorial commemorating
Mao's philosophies, with possibly a nod to Karl Marx. Finally, if he
has time, he wants to carve 25,000 tiny statues of Mao to leave
along the route of the Long March, the 6,000-mile trek that members
of the fledgling Communist Party made in...
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