Mao's pictures adorn the walls of a jewellery shop. Three decades into China¿s reform and opening-up drive, remote villages in China have witnessed drastic economic and social transformation. And yet Mao has remained on a pedestal in the hamlet of more than 6,000 villagers.
He was de-deified at the end of the ‘cultural revolution’ (1966-76), but Mao Zedong continues to be worshipped in some remote parts of China.
IN the largely Buddhist hamlet of Man’en, New China’s founder Mao Zedong is a god as revered as any other.
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