Beijing Sights and scams
Beijing China,
4th July 2006
So I went to loads more sights,
the summer palace and the temple of heaven for example.
All have the same characteristics of loads of scafolding and the great cultural renovation takes place for the olimpics and loads of domestic and western tourists.
I went to see Mao in his mau-solieam in tienamen square.
Love him or loath him he was a pretty important guy and now he is stuffed and mounted for everyone to queue up and file past if they want.
The official party line is that Mau was 70% right and 30% wrong,
Read a bit about the "great leap forward" and the "cultural revolution" to get an idea of how much that 30% covers.
4th July 2006
So I went to loads more sights,
the summer palace and the temple of heaven for example.
All have the same characteristics of loads of scafolding and the great cultural renovation takes place for the olimpics and loads of domestic and western tourists.
I went to see Mao in his mau-solieam in tienamen square.
Love him or loath him he was a pretty important guy and now he is stuffed and mounted for everyone to queue up and file past if they want.
The official party line is that Mau was 70% right and 30% wrong,
Read a bit about the "great leap forward" and the "cultural revolution" to get an idea of how much that 30% covers.
posted by conor at 5:40 AM
1 Comments:
Excellent stuff, will try to convince my Dad of that 70-30 thing!!! :)))) He is a great believer that all things communists are the works of the Satan... :)
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