Chairman Mao Memorial Hall (Maozhuxi Jiniantang) Beijing

Tiananmen Square, Chongmen District, Beijing , China - Phone: 010 6513 2277
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    Historic site, Monument

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    Where are the sodding sign posts?

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    We set the alarm clock for 7am this morning so we could try and beat the crowds to the pickled Mao. We arrived in Tianamen Square after a small detour, over which we had no control, at 8am. The queue to see the former chairman Mao was all ready backed up. It was a medium to fast long queue (Adds words of wisdom). It took roughly 45minutes to get …

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    Extremely Mao'd and Incredibly Close

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    When I was a bookish little boy, biographies were my favorite section in the elementary school library. I must've been no older than 10 when I found a dusty red book with only three words embossed on the cover: Mao Tse-Tung. This antiquated volume (so old that it used his former anglicized surname instead of the contemporary Zedong) led Mao to …

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    Stranded in the Sea of Beijing

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    Beijing is gigantic. A few of the Americans here have been to New York, and one lives in the New York area, and they say New York is dwarfed by this city. I think the scale is quite dramatic myself. Navigating the giant subway system or bus system can be challenging, though the subways are much easier to learn than bus schedules, I think.

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    The Travels Continue!

    April 28, 2012

    Chinese Word for the Day: Chu'ar...although I haven't been able to have it yet, I've been told that this is a MUST eat while visiting Beijing. It's a meat skewer and I guess it's the easiest Chinese character to learn as it looks a skewer.

    Well I'm off traveling again! This time a new experience as I'm really on my …

  • 5

    Dag van tegenstellingen: Mao en de verboden stad

    Blog en foto's volgens ná mijn bezoek …

  • 6

    Day 1 in Beijing: Tiananmen Square （天

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    I have to apologize in advance. Since I'm writing this on June 1st, until I'm entirely caught up to today, my memories of the details of these places might be a bit fuzzy. Thank goodness for pictures!

    Every day we spent in Beijing (北京）was jam-packed with tourist activities, which is how I like it. First we took a train …

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    A Moment With Mao

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    ... , schools and transportation across the country came to a halt. The Great Helmsman has been lying in state in the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall since 1977, and is probably number two in the hierarchy of mummified communist leaders; ahead of Vietnam's Ho Chi ...

  • 2

    Brilliant Beijing

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    ... public place, the square remains more in the government's hands than the people with police and TV surveillance everywhere. The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall is on the Southern side of the square and contains the mummified corpse of Chairman Mao in a ...

  • 3

    Tiananmen Square

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    ... of the place, I could really believe numbers like that. The centerpiece of the square no doubt is officially called "Chairman Mao Memorial Hall" but is generally called Mao's Masoleum.  Like a very large number of Beijing public buildings, it ...

  • 4

    Beijing: Part I

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    ... Square. Like the Forbidden City, Tiananmen, with its recognizable structures such as the Gate of Heavenly Peace, the National Museum, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall and the Great Hall of the People, is simply overwhelming. There was a lot of buzz on the ...

  • 5

    Beijing, September 27, 2008, Saturday

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    ... the view at the square and monumental edifices on and around it, like China National Museum, Monument to the People's Heroes, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall and Great Hall of the People, approximately from the spot where comrade Chairman had proclaimed the ...

  • 6

    Walking on Kunming Lake

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    This morning, our plan was to go see Mao.  His body is preserved and laid out at the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall in Tiananmen Square.  We took a taxi there, the driver dropped us off right outside the hall, and to our major disappointment, ...

  • 7

    Beijing, China

    ... (the South Gate), on the west is the huge Great Hall of the People and right in the centre is the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall which displays the pickled corpse of Mao Zedong. Apparently Mao actually wanted to be cremated but his successor decided to go ...

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    Beijing, October 8, 2008, Wednesday

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    ... back in the queue which, luckily, didn't move that slow so eventually our spirits lifted up rather soon. Of course, the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, as it is officially called, is the old Mao's final resting place. Allegedly, he wished to be cremated, ...

  • 9

    Day 40: Beijing, capital city

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    ... been built are ordered in line and just huge, and the Monument to the People's Heroes and of course the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall are THE popular locations for taking pictures. When entering the square area from the metro station, security checks are ...

  • 10

    Mao and Markets

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    ... .55am!  Instead, we went mid morning to the square and the Memorial Hall of Chairman Mao at the south side.  Chairman Mao Memorial Hall is the resting place of Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 1943 and ...