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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

TIPTOEING TOWARDS... THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY


COMING SOON 
THE 90TH ANNIVERSARY 
OF THE 
CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY 


THE SHANGHAI 
CHILDREN'S PALACE 
PUTS ON A SHOW, JUNE 198

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was officially founded on July 1, 1921, and the People's Republic of China (PRC), of which the CCP is unapologetically the ruling party, is in the middle of a long celebration of the ninetieth anniversary. 

With the above photograph from my first trip to China, in 1981, for comparison, I was rather amused -- or bemused -- to find this photograph of the current celebrations in the New York Times. 

A photograph of the interior of the site of the First Congress of the CCP, the founding Congress, can be found here

A photograph of the most recent Congress, the Seventeenth, in action, can be found here

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