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Where Mao’s Peasants Tilled the Soil, Tourists Now Pay for the View

✇NYT | China
By: Andrew Higgins and Gilles Sabrié
18 November 2025 at 15:55
Decades ago, a Chinese village became an official symbol of revolutionary “self-reliance.” The slogan hasn’t changed, but nearly everything else has.

Where Mao’s Peasants Tilled the Soil, Tourists Now Pay for the View

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Andrew Higgins and Gilles Sabrié
18 November 2025 at 15:55
Decades ago, a Chinese village became an official symbol of revolutionary “self-reliance.” The slogan hasn’t changed, but nearly everything else has.

Jia Tianlian tending his tiny plot of land in Dazhai, a village in northern China that Mao Zedong once hailed as a model for the nation. In the background are residential buildings from the “people’s commune” of that era.
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