For years it has been the globetrotting folksinger ‘Mama Peng’ who has hogged the limelight rather than her strongman husband President Xi JinpingIn a Ming dynasty temple at the heart of Beijing’s Forbidden City,tourists huddle around an oil portray, smartphones poised.
On the crimson wall before them hangs the portrait of a Chinese icon: a superstar of stage and screen who rose from humble origins to become one of her country’s most recognisable faces.
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Source: theguardian.com