Shaoshan

Shao-shan English Alternative forms en Shao-shan Wade-Giles Etymology From en cmn 韶山. Pronunciation shouʹshänʹ en Shao shan Proper noun en county-level city prefecture-level city/Xiangtan p/Hunan c/China. en April 14, 1954 Carolyn Wells Internationally Speaking... The Agnes Scott News https://archive.org/details/agnesscottnews195354/page/n56/ XXXIX 15 Decatur, GA w:Agnes Scott College 1 https://archive.org/details/agnesscottnews195354/page/n56/ Mao Tse-tung, for example, leader of Communist China, was born in Shaoshan, province of Hunan, the son of a well-to-do farmer. en 19 September 1977 17 September 1977 Mao's Home Village Recalls His Revolutionary Activities Daily Report: People's Republic of China I 181 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043578387&seq=83 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Peking NCNA 0892-0141 1113433 H 1 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043578387&seq=134 During the days honouring Chairman Mao's memory on the first anniversary of his passing away, people of Shaoshan, his home village, recalled his revolutionary activities in leading them in the peasant movement and his concern about their struggle and livelihood.Shaoshan people talked about how Chairman Mao set up the first Communist Party branch in Shaoshan, kindling the sparks of revolution. June 25, 2010 A Mao Trinket Must Look Like Mao, Not Elvis https://web.archive.org/web/20100630094600/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/weekinreview/27grist.html Week in Review Trade in Mao memorabilia is big business in the Chinese city of Shaoshan, birthplace of the Great Helmsman. en 27 December 2013 120th anniversary sees tourists flood birthplace of father of modern China https://web.archive.org/web/20131228003214/http://www.france24.com/en/focus/20131227-120th-anniversary-sees-tourists-flood-birthplace-father-modern-china/ 28 December 2013 w:France 24 Prosperity has certainly come to Shaoshan, located in the south-central Hunan province. The town has a massive “red tourism” industry, with a museum, a library, a cultural centre and soon a theatre, all dedicated to Mao. Translations city Chinese: Cantonese: yue 韶山 Mandarin: cmn 韶山 Sháoshān Further reading en 1998 Shaoshan Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2886 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2886/ 2 Shaoshan, Shao-shan