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Chairman Mao’s Little Red Cellphone

By Mark Wilson Published February 13, 2009, 8:40 pm ET

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By artist Tavis Coborn for a Discovery Channel documentary on China’s rising middle class. The more I ruminate over this work, the more I appreciate it. [Coborn via Unplggd]

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