Outrage Over China’s Plans For Mao’s Birthday

Sky News ^ | 1:50pm UK, Thursday 17 October 2013

[Olog-hai]

More than $2.5 billionn (£1.6 billion) is being spent on events to mark the 120^th anniversary of the birth of Mao Zedong, to the fury of many Chinese citizens.

The money is being directed towards Mao’s birthplace of Shaoshan, where a tourist information center will be renovated and his former residence restored, according to the Changsha Evening News. High-speed rail stations and new highways will also be built to impress the expected influx of visitors. …

However, Chinese internet users have criticized the sum of money the city plans to spend—far greater than originally planned—more than 37 years after Mao’s death. …

[tet68]

Wait til you see how much they will spend to renovate
Obama’s childhood home...........where ever it is.

[ifinnegan]

Mao is the greatest mass murderer in history.

Yet he is to be celebrated in this manner and the controversy is money being spent.

Don’t ever let anyon tell you China s still not run by a communist tyranny.

[TexasRepublic]

Mao’s revolution killed only 66 million by some estimates. No big deal. /s

[PoloSec]

Relax China man, 2.4 billion was donated by the U.S.!

[SeminoleCounty]

And Free Traders still continue pushing Free Trade with Communist China. Now we are funding MaoWorld

[VeniVidiVici]

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, professor of history at the University of California Irvine, said the 120th anniversary will see an effort to put Mao "into a context as the person who began China's resurgence to world-power status, as opposed to what the Western associations with Mao often now are".

Yeah, labling Mao a murderous dictator is so Western-centric. I feel so bad.