Per-Anders Pettersson

ON ASSIGNMENT: CHINESE THEME PARKS: CHINESE THEME PARKS

Chinese tourists dress up as Mao Tse-tung outside his house at the Zao'yuan Revolutionary Site Park in October 2008 in central Yan’an, China. The city has become a popular place for communist pilgrims, as it was the endpoint for the Long March and the center of the Chinese Communist revolution from 1935 to 1948. Chinese communists celebrate Yan’an as the birthplace of the revolution.
CHINESE THEME PARKS

Chinese tourists dress up as Mao Tse-tung outside his house at the Zao'yuan Revolutionary Site Park in October 2008 in central Yan’an, China. The city has become a popular place for communist pilgrims, as it was the endpoint for the Long March and the center of the Chinese Communist revolution from 1935 to 1948. Chinese communists celebrate Yan’an as the birthplace of the revolution.