Travel China with the Yangxifu: Mao Zedong’s Childhood House, Shaoshan, Hunan
Posted in Travel China with the Yangxifu on Nov 10th, 2010
Nestled in the sun-kissed hills of central Hunan, there’s an ordinary yellow mud-brick peasant house with a not-so-ordinary neighbor — a permanent People’s Liberation Army guard station. That humble — and now fortified — abode was laojia (老家, home) to one of China’s most commanding (and controversial) figures of the 20th century: Mao Zedong. In [...]









