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lcurran | all galleries >> China 1992 to Present >> The West > The Great Helmsman - Very few of these statues left
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06-OCT-2002 © Luis Curran

The Great Helmsman - Very few of these statues left

Kashgar, Xinjiang Province

Canon EOS D30
1/500s f/13.0 at 50.0mm iso400 hide exif
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Date/Time06-Oct-2002 00:04:34
MakeCanon
ModelEOS D30
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Focal Length50 mm
Exposure Time1/500 sec
Aperturef/13
ISO Equivalent400
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White Balance (-1)
Metering Modematrix (5)
JPEG Quality (6)
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Focus Distance18.580 m

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Luis Curran07-Nov-2004 03:51
I think there is a love-hate relationship between the people of China and Mao. On the one hand, they think he did a great job of forming and uniting the nation and bringing egalitarianism to most of it but failed miserably in his politically myopic methods for furthering the nation - e.g., the Great Leap Forward which resulted in over 30 million people dying of famine and, of course, the Cultural Revolution which, in effect, denied a whole generation of education and retarded the country's growth for over ten years.

For many people today, he is more of a good-luck icon which they hang from the rear-view mirrors of their cars! I suppose it's true that time heals all wounds but there are many today who regard that era as a terrible time.

I haven't seen many of these statues in my travels throughout China.
jack 05-Nov-2004 11:42
nice pic ,I think ,it is a symblism of the invation of chiness!:)