Shaoshan (China) (AFP) – Fifty years after his death, diehard fans of the Chinese Communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong line up in his hometown to pay tribute — holding portraits, leaving huge floral tributes and singing revolutionary songs. As China grapples with a slowing economy, nostalgia is growing for Mao’s egalitarian ideals, but his drastic policies are also blamed by historians for mass starvation and millions of deaths.
