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Shaoshan, Mao’s birthplace (1893)

On the Mao’s China map as “Shaoshan”

1893–today — Mao was born in Shaoshan, a farming village in Hunan. During the Cultural Revolution it became a place of pilgrimage, with millions of Red Guards walking or riding here. Visits declined after 1976, then rose again from the 1990s as a patriotic and commercial cult of Mao revived.

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Turning point
Chapter
Death and legacy of Mao Zedong (chapter 12 of Mao’s China)
Atlas
The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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Map showing Shaoshan, Mao’s birthplace (1893), turning point in The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
TURNING POINT · THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC UNDER MAO, 1949–1976

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