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China: From Mao To Buddha

Aggregated Source: Global Voices Online » China
October 8, 2007|

During the cultural revolution, Dazhai (in Shanxi Province) was a model rural collective to show the superiority of socialist China. Recently a large Buddhist temple has been built in the village. Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated an article from South Wind to explain how the worship of Mao turned into the worship of Buddha in Dazhai.



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