red tourism

Taipei Times - archives: "Four years ago, Beijing launched a drive to promote ‘red tourism’ in hopes of reinvigorating the ‘national ethos’ of visitors and the economies of mostly poor, landlocked areas

By Tania Branigan
THE GUARDIAN, YAN’AN, CHINA
Friday, Oct 02, 2009, Page 9



The bullet tore through Mao Guangrong’s back and came out through his groin. It took five men to hold him down as they stuffed the wound with cloth to staunch the bleeding — the only treatment the troops could muster as they struggled to defend the communist base at Yan’an."