Today's newspaper. The drawing is a patchwork of some of the many photo's the China correspondent sent me. Strangely enough a lot of those photo's were of the earthquake, but there isn't a word about the earthquake in the article. Never mind. Most of his story is about a village that is still governed according to strict Maoist rules. In other parts of China they are referred to as a nostalgic myth. I wonder if the same goes for our little Chinatown here in Toronto. We are always puzzled by the magazine section in the shop where we buy our TTC tokens. Mao left right and centre. We call it the Mao shop. They are a DVD rental too, mysterious films play while we wait for our turn at the cash register. Other customers are usually gambling. Which I don't think Mao would approve of.
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