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China: commercialize nation's inauguration

Categories: East Asia, China, Economics & Business, Freedom of Speech, History

SohoXiaoBao blogs a local newspapers report on a Changsha resturant which changed the slogan in the nation's inauguration ceremony painting into “big rice bowl is now established”. The city commerical said that “the advertisement was inappropriate from political and emotional perspectives, it would have negective effect on the construction of socialist spiritual culture [1]“.

Comments from the post pointed out that actually Mao Zse-dong had taken the lead to change the painting by taking out political figures, such as Gao Gang from the inauguration in 1953.