The 36.6-metre tall statue of Mao Zedong, the much-loved and much-feared Communist revolutionary who built modern China, was said to have cost entrepreneurs nearly $644,000 to build.

BEIJING – A Chinese village has abruptly demolished a statue of communist China’s founder, Mao Zedong, after images of the structure covered in gold paint and looming 37 metres (120 feet) high ...

A 36.6-metre tall gold-coloured statue of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong is surrounded by farmland in Tongxu County in central China's Henan province on Monday, Jan. 4, 2016.

Share this Story : Admirers build giant, golden statue of Mao Zedong in Chinese field at a reported cost of nearly $644,000 ...

A giant gold statue of Chairman Mao has been built in China that's 120ft tall and cost £314,000. In a somewhat ironic move, the founding member of the Communist Party in China's tribute was ...

They also sought to erect a statue at the university’s law school of chairman Mao Zedong, the Chinese leader who brought his country under Communist control and, in his decades as the Great ...

A Mao devote pays her respects at the Mao Zedong memorial in Mao's Home Town of Shaoshan, China January 12, ... They lay flowers beneath the statue that cost anywhere from 59 to 1,000 yuan ...

BEIJING — A Chinese village has abruptly demolished a statue of communist China’s founder, Mao Zedong, after images of the structure covered in gold paint and looming 37 metres (120 feet) high over ...