Shaoshan

alternative Shao-shan

1. A county-level city of Xiangtan, Hunan, China.

   Trade in Mao memorabilia is big business in the Chinese city of Shaoshan, birthplace of the Great Helmsman.

   2010 June 25, “A Mao Trinket Must Look Like Mao, Not Elvis”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2010, Week in Review

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   Mao Tse-tung, for example, leader of Communist China, was born in Shaoshan, province of Hunan, the son of a well-to-do farmer.

   1954 April 14, Carolyn Wells, “Internationally Speaking...”, in The Agnes Scott News, volume XXXIX, number 15, Decatur, GA: Agnes Scott College, page 1

   During the days honouring Chairman Mao's memory on the first anniversary of his passing away, people of Shaoshan, his home village, recalled his revolutionary activities in leading them in the peasant movement and his concern about their struggle and livelihood. Shaoshan people talked about how Chairman Mao set up the first Communist Party branch in Shaoshan, kindling the sparks of revolution.

   1977 September 19 [1977 September 17], “Mao's Home Village Recalls His Revolutionary Activities”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 181, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page H 1

   Prosperity has certainly come to Shaoshan, located in the south-central Hunan province. The town has a massive “red tourism” industry, with a museum, a library, a cultural centre and soon a theatre, all dedicated to Mao.

   2013 December 27, “120th anniversary sees tourists flood birthplace of father of modern China”, in France 24, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2013