All things Mao

COMMUNIST kitsch is now a big – and lucrative – market. From Mao badges to Long March tours, the "Red Dollar" industry these days rakes in billions of dollars annually as affluent Chinese turn revolutionary relics into collector's items...more.

Photos: ST, Reuters, AFP and Cannonball Art Fund

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