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Shanghai Diaries

by Erik Olsen on Mar 13, 2005

Dan Washburn runs a killer blog called Shanghai Dairies that is a
must-read. In
this entry,
he talks about his odd obession with taking a gander at Chairman’s Mao’s dessicating corpse, with a thoughtful
rumination on corpses in general and the cult of mao today.

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