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The birthplace of Mao Zedong 毛泽东 (1893-1976) is located in the village Shaoshan 韶山 in the province Hunan 湖南. This farmhouse was the place where Mao spent hisyouth between 1893 and 1910. When Mao was a child, “the family house consisted ofhalf a dozen rooms“ (Chang 2007: 3), so he seemingly grew up in quite wealthy circumstances.In 1929, the house was destroyed by the Guomindang government and rebuilt in 1950after the PRC was founded. The rebuilt farmhouse was kept in the same rusticaland rural style as the original, maybe to emphasise Mao’s roots as a farmer boy(Denton 2014: 235). On June, 1983, Deng Xiaoping 邓小平 (1904-1997), who was the Chairman of the CCP at that time, provided the calligraphic inscription "Comrade Mao Zedong's Former Residence" (毛泽东同志故居) on the front of the entrance (Website Red Tourism). Picture 1: The former residence of Mao Zedong The memorial hallwas added to the building in 1964 and has in total twelve rooms. The firsteight rooms are showing Mao’s youth, his way to power and the last years of hislife. &#160;The other three chambers areshowing thematic exhibitions with the topics: "Comrade Mao Zedong'sRevolutionary Family (毛泽东同志的革命家庭)“, "Shaoshan Wind and Man's Thoughts (韶山风物耐人思) " and "International Friends in Shaoshan (国际友人在韶山)" (Official homepage of Mao Zedong’s birthplace). Both the birthplace and the memorial hall are presenting the classical narrative of the CCP: Mao as the great, untouchable leader, without bringing up any content about the Great Leap Forward 大跃进 and the Cultural Revolution 文化大革命. According to KirkDenton, the museum utilizes loudspeakers and other audivisual devises to reachthe visitor, without using political charged texts to convince the spectators. List of Pictures: Picture 1: The former residence of MaoZedong (source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_Residence_of_Mao_Zedong#/media/File:The_former_residence_of_Mao_Zedong_12.jpg,author: huangdan2060) Featured image: Shaoshan in Hunan -birthplace of Mao Zedong(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaoshan#/media/File:Shaoshan_01.JPG,author: Brücke-Osteuropa) Bibliography: Denton, Kirk A. (2014): Exhibiting the Past –Historical memory and the Politics of Museum in Postsocialist China. Honolulu:University of Hawai’i Press. Spence, Jonathan D. (1999): Mao Zedong – A PenguinLife. New York: Viking. Zhang, Rong (2007): Mao – The Unknown Story.London: Vintage Books. 