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Yang Keqi touches up his painting, a portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong, in Changsha, Central China’s Hunan province, Dec 5, 2013. He spent nine years on 12 pieces of oil paintings for an exhibition to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Mao’s birth.[Photo/Asianewsphoto]
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Chairman Mao
The late Chinese leader Mao Zedong once used a penname of 二十八画生 or Ershibahuasheng, which means 28 strokes because the three Chinese characters in 毛泽东, Mao's Chinese name, have 28 stokes in total.