BEIJING - SEPTEMBER 03: A Chinese woman sells portraits of former Chinese leaders, premier Zhou Enlai (L) and chairman Mao Zedong (C), at Panjiayuan flea market on September 3, 2009 in Beijing, China. Memorabilia of the Chinese Communist regime have become more popular ahead of the upcoming National Day on October 1, 2009 which this year will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the formation of the People's Republic of China. Getty Images logo Getty Images 2 months ago

BEIJING - SEPTEMBER 03: A Chinese woman sells portraits of former Chinese leaders, premier Zhou Enlai (L) and chairman Mao Zedong (C), at Panjiayuan flea market on September 3, 2009 in Beijing, China. Memorabilia of the Chinese Communist regime have become more popular ahead of the upcoming National Day on October 1, 2009 which this year will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the formation of the People's Republic of China.

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  1. Local residents hold photos of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, left, and Zhou Enlai, right, during a flag raising ceremony celebrating China's 60th Anniversary in Chengdu, in southwest China's Sichuan province, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009. China celebrated its rise to a world power over 60 years of Communist rule Thursday, staging its biggest-ever parade of military hardware with over a hundred thousand marching masses in a display that stirred patriotism - and some unease. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT.
  2. Wax figures of Mao Zedong (L) and Deng Xiaoping are exhibited as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the People's Republic of China at a shopping mall in Hong Kong September 23, 2009. China will celebrate its national day on October 1.
  3. BEIJING - SEPTEMBER 03: A Chinese woman sells portraits of former Chinese leaders, premier Zhou Enlai (L) and chairman Mao Zedong (C), at Panjiayuan flea market on September 3, 2009 in Beijing, China. Memorabilia of the Chinese Communist regime have become more popular ahead of the upcoming National Day on October 1, 2009 which this year will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the formation of the People's Republic of China.
  4. JINAN CHINA - OCTOBER 1£¬2009: Fireworks explode over the Mao Zedong's statue to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 2009 in Jinan, Shandong Province of China. Chinese people commemorated the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China with massive celebrations taking place across the country including a grand military parade and mass pageant in Beijing.
  5. JINAN CHINA - OCTOBER 1£¬2009: Fireworks explode over the Mao Zedong's statue to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 2009 in Jinan, Shandong Province of China. Chinese people commemorated the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China with massive celebrations taking place across the country including a grand military parade and mass pageant in Beijing.
  6. JINAN CHINA - OCTOBER 1£¬2009: Fireworks explode over the Mao Zedong's statue to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 2009 in Jinan, Shandong Province of China. Chinese people commemorated the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China with massive celebrations taking place across the country including a grand military parade and mass pageant in Beijing.
  7. A wax figure of Mao Zedong is exhibited as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the People's Republic of China at a shopping mall in Hong Kong September 23,2009. China will celebrate its national day on October 1.
  8. A wax figure of Mao Zedong is exhibited as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the People's Republic of China at a shopping mall in Hong Kong September 23,2009. China will celebrate its national day on October 1.
  9. A wax figure of Mao Zedong is exhibited as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the People's Republic of China at a shopping mall in Hong Kong September 23,2009. China will celebrate its national day on October 1.
  10. A wax figure of Mao Zedong is exhibited as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the founding of the People's Republic of China at a shopping mall in Hong Kong September 23,2009. China will celebrate its national day on October 1.
  11. BEIJING - SEPTEMBER 03: Quotations from former chairman Mao Zedong, better known in the West as The Little Red Book, are being sold at Panjiayuan flea market on September 3, 2009 in Beijing, China. Memorabilia of the Chinese Communist regime have become more popular ahead of the upcoming National Day on October 1, 2009 which this year will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the formation of the People's Republic of China.
  12. A worker carries out renovation work on a portrait of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, on a square in Changzhi, Shanxi province November 19, 2009.
  13. BEIJING, CHINA - NOVEMBER 10: A paramilitary policeman stands guard in front of the Chairman Mao Zedong Memorial Hall at the Tiananmen Square after heavy overnight downfalls on November 10, 2009 in Beijing, China. National Meteorological Center expected the third snow would fall in Beijing in the next four days with a temperature drop of over 10 degrees centigrade.
  14. People wait in a line to visit the late Chairman Mao Zedong Mausoleum after snow fell on Tiananmen Suqare in Beijing November 10, 2009.
  15. A worker washes ink from a screen print bearing an image of U.S. President Barack Obama's face over that of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong at a shirt printing factory located on the outskirts of Beijing October 30, 2009. Obama, who will visit Shanghai and Beijing for the first time on Nov. 15-18, spent much of his childhood in Hawaii, five time zones away from Washington, D.C.; and beginning in 1967, when he was six years old, he lived in Jakarta for four years. Although U.S. President Barack Obama has never set foot there, China cast a long shadow in the Pacific region where he grew up. Picture taken October 30, 2009. To match Special Report CHINA/USA.
  16. Tourists are reflected in the window of a shop displaying shirts and pouches bearing an image U.S. President Barack Obama's face imprinted over that of China's late leader Mao Zedong, in the popular tourist area of Houhai in central Beijing September 21, 2009. Obama, who will visit Shanghai and Beijing for the first time on Nov. 15-18, spent much of his childhood in Hawaii, five time zones away from Washington, D.C.; and beginning in 1967, when he was six years old, he lived in Jakarta for four years. Although U.S. President Barack Obama has never set foot there, China cast a long shadow in the Pacific region where he grew up. Picture taken September 21, 2009. To match Special Report CHINA/USA.

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