"They remember Mao's speech when he declared victory (and founded the People's Republic of China) on Oct. 1, 1949: `The Chinese people have stood up,'" Liu said.
The museum itself is filled with pictures and stories of the "great helmsman," and not surprisingly, the victory speech booms endlessly repeated throughout.
Fu Xiaoran, a museum spokeswoman, said the grounds were meant to be educational.
"We are one of the main educational bases of patriotism in China," Fu said, adding that all levels of party leadership were paying greater attention to "moral and ideological education."
Just how effective such education might be in a China whose revolutionary past is increasingly arcane is hard to measure.
What is certain, however, is that the party has steadfastly refused to bring final judgement on a man and his policies that Deng Xiaoping (
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