After Mao Badges, Mao Fever, a Mao Mountain
Not so long ago, China believed Mao Tse-tung could move mountains. Now a town in south China thinks it has found a mountain just like him.
Seen from a certain angle at sunset, the mountain in Huizhou in south China’s Guangdong province has the former leader’s “chin, lips, nose, eyes, eyebrows, forehead and swept back hair,” the New China News Agency said Monday.
Mao led the Communist takeover in 1949 and had attained almost godlike status by the time he died in 1976. Mao fever, including a craze for Mao badges and memorabilia, has swept China this year, the 100th anniversary of his birth.
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