Young Mao Zedong statue

Statue in Hunan province, China

Young Mao Zedong statue

Young Mao Zedong statue

Location| Orange Isle, Changsha, Hunan, China
Coordinates| 28°10′16″N 112°57′17″E﻿ / ﻿28.1710°N 112.9547°E﻿ / 28.1710; 112.9547
Type| Statue
Material| Granite
Length| 83 metres (272 ft)
Width| 41 metres (135 ft)
Height| 32 metres (105 ft)
Completion date| 2009
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Mao Zedong

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Personal

* Early life
* Former Residence
* Death and state funeral
* Memorial Hall

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Ideology

* Maoism
* Third Worldism
* Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
* Gonzalo Thought
* Prachanda Path

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Leadership

* Tenure
* Revolution
* Land Reform Movement
* Proclamation
* Korean War
* Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries
* Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns
* First five-year plan
* Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
* Bandung Conference
* Sufan movement
* Hundred Flowers Campaign
* Anti-Rightist Campaign
* Canton Fair
* Great Leap Forward
* Great Chinese Famine
* Two Bombs, One Satellite
* Seven Thousand Cadres Conference
* Socialist Education Movement
* Third Front
* Cultural Revolution
* Abolition of the presidency
* UN representation
* Richard Nixon visit

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Works

* Bombard the Headquarters
* A Critique of Soviet Economics
* On Contradiction
* On Guerrilla Warfare
* On New Democracy
* On Practice
* On Protracted War
* On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
* On the People's Democratic Dictatorship
* On the Ten Major Relationships
* Oppose Book Worship
* Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
* Reply to Li Shuyi
* Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan
* Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung
* The Shian Kian Weekly Review
* Poetry
* Changsha
* The Double Ninth
* Loushan Pass

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Legacy

* Cult of personality
* Chairman Mao en route to Anyuan
* Portraits overlooking Tiananmen
* 1989 vandalism incident
* Statues
* Young
* Fuzhou
* Chengdu
* Long Live the Victory
* North Park Commune inspection

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The Young Mao Zedong statue[1][2] or statue of Young Mao Zedong[3][4] is located on Orange Isle in Changsha, Hunan. The monument stands 32 metres (105 ft) tall and depicts Mao Zedong's head. The Hunan People's Government began building it in 2007 and it was completed two years later, in 2009. It took more than 800 tons of granite mined from Fujian to complete.[5][6][7]

It is 83 metres (272 ft) long, symbolising Mao's age at his death, 41 metres (135 ft) wide, symbolising the number of years he led the Chinese Communist Party from the Zunyi Conference to his death, and 32 metres (105 ft) high, representing Mao's age when he wrote his poem dedicated to Changsha city.

## See also

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* Adiyogi Shiva statue
* Atatürk Mask, İzmir
* Emperors Yan and Huang

## Gallery

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* Front of the statue

* The back of the statue.

## References

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1. ^ "Young Mao Zedong Statue Cleaned up (2)". People's Daily Online. 29 June 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
2. ^ "Customs YES historical and cultural study tour to Hunan". Custom News. 22 December 2023. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
3. ^ "Mao Zedong has emerged in China-- Commemorating 120th birth anniversary of Mao Zedong (2)". People's Daily Online. 26 December 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
4. ^ "Orange Isle". Hunan Provincial People's Government. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
5. ^ 《毛泽东青年艺术雕塑今日安装完毕》 (in Chinese). Ifeng. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
6. ^ Changsha Evening News, 青年毛泽东雕塑伫立橘子洲头 Archived 7 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese)
7. ^ Moore, Malcolm (3 November 2009). "New statue of Chairman Mao surprises China". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 February 2022.

## External links

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* Media related to Youth Mao Zedong Statue at Wikimedia Commons

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