Former mountain redoubt captures Mao's legacy
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JINGGANGSHAN, China  - In the fog-shrouded   mountains of China's Jiangxi province, where eight decades ago   a motley band of Communist rebels took refuge among the cypress   trees and bamboo, Mao Zedong is undisputed number one.
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Wei Wenhua was a model communist and is now a bloggers' hero. He was beaten to death by Chinese city inspectors as he snapped photos of them beating villagers. The death has sparked outrage. "City inspectors are worse than the mafia," one blogger writes.
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On the centenary of Deng's birth, memories of his bond with a U.S. President
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BAMIAN, Afghanistan -- The pair of majestic Buddha cliff-carvings are still disfigured, vandalized three years ago by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers. But little by little, what remains of the ancient treasures is being restored, with iron rods shoring up their niches and concrete being pumped into cracks across the crumbling stone.
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He collected folk songs in villages in his native China, then planted rice during the Cultural Revolution. Later, he played music on the streets of New York to buy food.
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Once a symbol of post-Soviet industrial decay, many are reviving and boosting local economies.
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LA HIGUERA, Bolivia -- The people here pray to a man who once limped through their village in tattered clothes, a legendary guerrilla who fought his last battle on their dusty, unpaved streets, and who was executed in their schoolhouse.
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China has opened an exhibition to mark the 111th anniversary of the birthday of late Chairman Mao Zedong whose embalmed body is on display in the same building, state media report.
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NANJIE, China -- The sky is still black when the village loudspeaker blazes the revolutionary song "The East Is Red." A three-story-high statue of Chairman Mao looms over a square flanked by giant portraits of the socialist all-stars: Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin.
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China is laying plans for refurbishing the Great Wall but insists that the original appearance be preserved.  The State Council, with Prime Minister Wen Jiabao leading, ratified the plan in principle Wednesday. Guidelines for the project will be drawn up later.
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IN LIFE he was feared and revered, but in death the father of Chinaâs 20-year economic miracle and crusher of Tiananmen Square had assumed iconic status.
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BANGKOK -- A lingering legacy of the Vietnam War emerged from the jungles of Laos yesterday, as hundreds of members of the Hmong hill tribe minority surrendered to the communist government after decades on the run.
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Half a century after Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward" brought irrigation to the arid grasslands in this remote corner of northwest China, the government is giving up on its attempt to make a breadbasket out of what has increasingly become a stretch of scrub and sand dunes.
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When fallen liberal Chinese Communist  Party chief Hu Yaobang died in 1989, his family debated whether  his body be clad in a business suit to mark him as a reformer  or the more customary Mao jacket of an ideologue.
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China tackled its snow crisis with a striking Â and uniquely Chinese Â display of communist mass mobilization, propaganda and state control.
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LHASA, China  - It is 45 years since Tibet's  god-king, the Dalai Lama, fled his homeland on horseback as  Chinese shells rained down on his capital. Many Tibetans do not  expect to see him again, or not in his current incarnation.
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An iconic portrait of Mao Zedong,   founder of Communist China, has been spared the auction block   and will be permanently preserved in a museum, state media   reported.