Days after Communist China‘s founding father Mao Zedong died 40 years ago the problem of what to accomplish with his corpse was becoming increasingly heated — literally. Mao himself had requested cremation, but powerful officials including his mercurial widow Jiang Qing decided he would join the likes of Vladimir Lenin and Ho Chi Minh in […]The post Live long and endure: How China’s Chairman Mao was preserved after death appeared first on Hong Kong Free Press. Author: AFP.
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